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Shi'ites mark Ashura festival
Updated: 2010-12-17 16:50
(Agencies)
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 Shi'ite Muslim men flagellate themselves during a Muharram procession ahead of the Ashura festival in Dhaka Dec 17, 2010. Shi'ite mourners beat themselves during Ashura with steel-tipped flails or slash their bodies with knives to mark the death anniversary of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, who was killed during a battle in A.D. 680 in Kerbala, a city in modern-day Iraq. [Photo/Agencies]
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 An Afghan Shi'ite Muslim man (L) bleeds as he flagellates during a Muharram procession to mark Ashura in Kabul Dec 16, 2010. [Photo/Agencies]
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