Iraq landslide disaster throws spotlight on informal shrines ...Middle East

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BAGHDAD: When a landslide buried part of an Islamic shrine in Iraq this summer, killing eight pilgrims, sorrow quickly turned to anger because the site was run without oversight from state or religious authorities.The deadly disaster struck in August near Karbala when tonnes of soggy earth and rock collapsed onto the Shiite shrine Qattarat al-Imam Ali, dedicated to the imam's journey on his way to battle in AD 657.By the time the search-and-rescue effort was over, three trapped children had been brought out alive -- but the bodies of two men, five women and one child had also been pulled from the rubble.The shared grief quickly gave way to public fury when Iraqi government and religious offi

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