TEHRAN - 11 Iranian pilgrims were injured in a terrorist attack in Iraq on Saturday.

The incident happened when a bus loaded with explosives crushed into a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims on the road to Kazemein outside Baghdad, said Javad Khani, an official at Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization.
Three of the injured have been hospitalized, he announced.
Khani said these pilgrims did not travel to Iraq through legal official agencies affiliated to Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization.
Two other bomb attacks against Iranian pilgrims also took place in Iraq on Saturday.
In the first incident, a bomb detonated near a bus in the parking lot, but it had no passengers and the explosion only shattered the windows.
The second bomb hit a bus of Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization near the city of Baghdad, but no one was injured in the incident.
It is not the first time that Iranian pilgrims have come under attacks by terrorists with the aim of fomenting religious division.
Early in November, nine Iranian pilgrims were killed and many more injured in two terrorist bomb attacks in holy cities of Karbala and Najaf.
In the first incident, a bomb hit a bus carrying Iranians near the holy city of Karbala in central Iraq, killing three pilgrims and injuring 22 others.
The second bombing in Najaf targeted three buses carrying Iranian pilgrims, killing six other Iranians.