Location of Musayyib (red) At least 54 people died today when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a gas station near a mosque in Musayyib , about 60 km south of the Iraqi capital. Some 80 people are reported to have been injured. Mussayib, a religiously mixed town, lies in an area named the "triangle of death", due to the large number of kidnappings and killings of Shiite Muslims traveling between Baghdad and the Shiite holy cities of Karbala and Najaf .
Location of Musayyib (red) At least 54 people died today when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a gas station near a mosque in , about 60 south of the Iraqi capital. Some 80 people are reported to have been injured. Mussayib, a religiously mixed town, lies in an area named the "triangle of death", due to the large number of kidnappings and killings of Shiite Muslims traveling between Baghdad and the Shiite holy cities of and .
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