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Photos: Day of Ashura marked in Iraq

Muslim devotees take part in a mourning procession marking the day of Ashura in Karbala, Iraq on October 10, 2016. Shia Muslims are observing the Ashura, the tenth day of the first Islamic month of Muharram, to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, in the Iraqi city of Karbala in the seventh century. ( Ali Mohammed - Anadolu Agency )

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