Bomb attacks on army and pilgrims in Iraq (Photo: Reuters)

A roadside bomb attack on an Iraqi army convoy and a car bomb targeting Iranian pilgrims killed 10 people and wounded 19 on Saturday. A roadside bomb hit an army convoy near Heet, a town in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, killing five soldiers including a lieutenant colonel. That attack followed another car bomb against pilgrims traveling the same route last Monday that killed eight people and wounded at least 15. In both cases, the pilgrims were on their way to a Shiite shrine in Samarra, which was bombed in February 2006, unleashing a wave of sectarian bloodletting in which tens of thousands of people died. Iraq is home to some of the holiest sites in Shiite Islam and is visited by hundreds of thousands of foreign pilgrims each year, most of them from neighboring Iran. Sunni militants in Iraq, including those linked to Al-Qaeda, frequently attack Shiites.