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• Jan. 30: A Shiite Muslim prays as he self flagellates during a mourning procession to mark Ashoura, the tenth day of Muharram, in New Delhi, India.
• Jan. 30: A devotee holds bloodstained swords, which were used for beating himself during a procession to mark the Ashoura in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
• Jan. 30: Shiite Muslim men hitting their heads to bleed more after they cut it with a sword, take part in Ashoura Day in Nabatiyeh, Lebanon.
• Jan. 30: A pilgrim wounded when a mini bus he was in came under attack in the al-Amil neighborhood of Baghdad, is helped into an ambulance.
• Jan. 30: A pilgrim wounded when a mini bus he was in came under attack in the al-Amil neighborhood of Baghdad, is helped into an ambulance.
• Jan. 30: Shiites mark the Ashoura, the tenth day of Muharram when Imam Hussein was killed in the Battle of Karbala in the year 680, in Basra, Iraq.
• Jan. 30: Iraqi Shiites mark the Ashoura, the tenth day of Muharram when Imam Hussein was killed in the Battle of Karbala in the year 680, in Basra.
• Jan. 30: Iraqi Shiites mark the Ashoura, the tenth day of Muharram when Imam Hussein was killed in the Battle of Karbala in the year 680, in Basra.
• Jan. 30: A man checks the interior of a mini bus that came under attack by armed men in the al-Amil neighborhood of Baghdad.
• Jan. 30: Iranian and Iraqi Shiite Muslims beat themselves during religious ceremonial rituals in Tehran.
• Jan. 30: Shiite Muslim devotees flagellates themselves, standing on a U.S., Britain and Israeli flags painted on ground, to mark the Ashoura in Karachi, Pakistan.
• Jan. 30: Actors perform Tazieh, a traditional theater scene about Imam Hussein in Tehran, Iran.
• Jan. 30: Muslim pilgrims flagellate themselves during a mourning procession of the Islamic holy Ashoura in Calcutta, India.
• Jan. 30: Blood covers the ground of the mosque of Nabatiyeh after Lebanese Shiite Muslim men cut their heads with swords.
• Jan. 30: Staff of the Lebanese Civil Defense treat the bleeding head of a Shiite Muslim in Nabatiyeh, Lebanon.
• Jan. 30: Shiite Muslim men, beat their chests as they wear bandanas reading 'Here I Am At Your Service Muhammad,' during Ashoura day in the suburbs of Beirut.