BAGHDAD, Feb. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- A car bomb ripped through a market in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala on Saturday, killing at least six people and injuring 16, said an Interior Ministry source.

    "The explosion occurred near a market in Karbala. Local police said it is a car bomb detonated by remote control," the source told Xinhua.

    After a short lull on Friday, violence and sectarian reprisals intensify again in the war-torn country following the Shiite holy shrine bombing, despite the second rare day-time curfew.

    Karbala, some 110 km south of Baghdad, is a holy Shiite city where Imam Hussein and his brother Imam Abbas, grandsons of the Prophet Mohammad, were buried. Enditem