Frantic rescue effort under way at Iraq shrine hit by landslide

Operation continues to save people trapped under the rubble with at least four dead at the Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine in Karbala province.

Iraqi rescue workers search for survivors under shrine
Three children were rescued following Saturday’s disaster but an unknown number of people are buried under the debris [Mohammed Sawaf/AFP]

Iraqi rescue workers desperately searched for survivors buried under rubble after a landslide hit a Shia shrine, killing at least four people.

The official Iraqi news agency INA, citing the civil defence service, said on Sunday that four bodies were recovered from the debris at the Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine in Karbala province, central Iraq.

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