Fresh bomb targets Iraq's Shias

A car bomb has gone off south of Baghdad killing six people, most of them Shia pilgrims. The blast, in Musayyib, came at a time when funerals were being held for ninety people killed in suicide attacks on a Shia mosque in the city.

For the first time a senior government official has declared that Iraq is in a state of "undeclared civil war".

"Iraq has actually been in an undeclared civil war for the past 12 months," Deputy Interior Minister Hussein Ali Kamal told the BBC's Arabic Service.

"On a daily basis Shia, Sunni, Kurds and Christians are being killed and the only undeclared thing is that a civil war has not been officially announced by the parties involved."

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