WRAP Actual blast, aftermath, Ashoura scenes

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(First Run 0800 F-L-A-S-H - 2 March 2004) 1. High wide shot of crowds in central Karbala, flash of explosion between two buildings, followed by boom (First Run 0715 Asia Pacific Late - 2 March 2004) 2. Flames and people running in panic 3. Various of people running in panic away from blast 4. Close-up panicked people 5. Wider shot panicked crowd 6. Various of frightened crowd 7. Man carrying baby, people running 8. People coming away from scene 9. Various of scene of blast, bloodstained puddle and bodies laid out (First Run 0900 Europe Morning - 2 March 2004) 10. Zoom in on ambulance with sirens blaring, burnt body being loaded into back 11. Panic and confusion at scene of second blast 12. Wide tracking shot of site of second blast, bodies strewn on ground, bystanders 13. Wide shot of road, confusion, sound of approaching sirens (First Run 1110 F-L-A-S-H - 2 March 2004) 14. Wide shot golden-domed shrine where Imam Hussein is buried, crowds in street, people pouring out of entrance 15. Top mid shot people pouring out of gate 16. Mid top shot of crowds beating themselves 17. Closer shot crowds beating themselves 18. Top shot procession pouring out of gate and down street 19. Wide shot gold-domed mosque and crowds STORYLINE: A series of coordinated blasts struck major Shiite Muslim shrines in Karbala and Baghdad on Tuesday, killing more than 80 people who had converged for the final day of the sect''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s most important religious festival. Dozens of people were wounded, hospital and police officials reported. In Karbala, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Baghdad, five blasts went off shortly after 10 a.m. near two of the major shrines in Shiite Islam, hurling bodies in all directions and sending crowds of pilgrims fleeing in panic. Bodies ripped apart by the force of the blasts lay on the streets. There were varying reports on the cause of the blasts in Karbala and at the Kazimiya shrine in Baghdad. Stunned witnesses blamed suicide bombers or planted explosives, though there were some reports of mortars fired. The Ashoura festival, which marks the 7th century killing of Imam Hussein, is the most important religious period in Shiite Islam and drew hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and other Shiite communities to the Iraqi shrines. In spite of the carnage in Karbala, ceremonies marking the last day of Ashoura continued. Groups of men, women and children, dressed in black, beat their chests and chanted prayers, and processed out of the gold-domed shrine where Imam Hussein is buried. It is the first time in more than three decades that Iraq''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s Shiites have been free to openly mark the religious festival. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/3c7a5764d0f22f3ea1cab557528399b6 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork