BAGHDAD, July 6 (Reuters) - Bombs and mortar rounds killed three Shi'ite pilgrims and wounded 25 others on Tuesday as they made their way to a shrine in northern Baghdad to commemorate the death of a medieval Shi'ite holy man.
The attacks took place during the same religious pilgrimage in which 1,000 people died five years ago in a stampede on a bridge as people made their way to the golden-domed shrine for Imam Moussa al-Kadhim in the Kadhimiya district of the Iraqi capital.
Police said one pilgrim was killed and nine wounded on Tuesday as they walked to Kadhimiya when three mortar rounds struck in the Shula district of northwestern Baghdad.
In New Baghdad, a roadside bomb targeting pilgrims killed two and wounded five, police said.
Three other roadside bombs exploded in the Baghdad districts of Bayaa, Abu Dsheer and in the northeastern section of the city, police said.
During a pilgrimage in 2005, rumours of a bombing on the Bridge of the Imams, which leads to the shrine, touched off a stampede that clogged the river below with bodies.
Violence has fallen sharply in Iraq since the height of sectarian slaughter in 2006-07 but attacks are still a daily occurrence as insurgents try to exploit a political vacuum after a March 7 election that produced no outright winner.
