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Iraqis' pray for Friday bombing

A bloody Scene

Exploded car wreckage

Local people stage a demonstration to mourn the death of Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim.

Thick smoke rising in the bombing scene

82 killed in car bombing in Iraq's Najaf

Eighty-two Iraqis were killed and 229 others injured on Friday in the earlier huge car bombing in Najaf, Iraq, said Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV channel.

Earlier reports said that at least 17 were killed, including leading Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, and dozens of others wounded in the blast in Najaf, 180 km south of Baghdad.

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