At least 55 people have been killed and 100 injured in a double suicide bombing in Baghdad.
Two men detonated their explosives at the gates of the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine in the Shia neighbourhood of Kadhimiya.
An interior ministry official said the majority of the victims were people going to pray at the shrine.
The blasts follow two suicide attacks yesterday, one in Baghdad and the other in the northeastern province of Diyala, in which at least 89 people died.
The attacks combined to produce the highest death toll in over a year.
The increasing violence comes as US combat troops prepare to pull out of Iraqi cities in June, ahead of a planned full withdrawal by the end of 2011.
