英语文摘：Four killed, 35 wounded in Iraq's Najaf blasts

BAGHDAD, Feb. 12 (Xinhua ) -- Four Iraqi Shiite pilgrims were killed and 35 others injured in three attacks Friday evening near southern Iraqi city of Najaf, an Iraqi Interior Ministry source said.

The first was conducted by a female suicide bomber. The other two were roadside explosive devices. They occurred on a road that links Najaf, some 160 km south of Baghdad, to Kufa, about seven km east of Najaf, the source said.

Palestinian protestors burn tyres during a protest against the confiscation of lands at the West Bank village of Nabi Salah in northern Ramallah, Feb. 12, 2010