Death Toll Tops 120 In Day Of Iraq Violence

In the city of Karbala, at least 49 people died and 100 were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a holy Shi'ite shrine.

Shortly afterward in the city of Al-Ramadi, another 69 people were killed, and 70 others injured when a suicide bomber attacked police recruits.

Later in Karbala, five U.S. soldiers were killed after a third suicide bomber destroyed their vehicle.

On 4 January, another suicide bomber in the northern Iraqi town of Ba'qubah killed at least 36 mourners at a Shi'ite funeral.

(compiled from agency reports)