Police arrest three firing on Baghdad pilgrims -TV

BAGHDAD, Aug 20 (Reuters) Police arrested three gunmen who fired on pilgrims in Baghdad today, Iraqi state television said, as hundreds of thousands massed for a sacred Shi'ite festival in which 1,000 died in a stampede last year.

Eyewitnesses said separately the men had fired from a Sunni mosque in west Baghdad. There were no details of casualties.

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