HOLY CITY OF NAJAF, Iraq: Many Iraqis were still burying their dead on Wednesday March 2 due to difficulties in identifying their relatives who were martyred in Monday's suicide bombing that left at least 130 people, the single deadliest attack of its kind since the fall of despot Saddam.

Mourners arrived in convoys of buses to bury their dead at Wadi-os Salam or Valley of Peace Cemetery in the holy city of Najaf, said to be one of the largest and oldest graveyards on the planet, if not the largest and the oldest, which also contains graves of some of the 124,000 prophets.

If Holy Najaf itself is one of Iraq's biggest cities, with a population of nearly 600,000, then the adjoining city of the dead holds the remains of millions.
 
After funeral prayer, every coffin is carried to the holy shrine of Imam Ali (p), circumambulated around the holy zarih renewing oath of allegiance to the Master of Believers Imam Ali (P) and then taken to the Valley of Peace Cemetery for burial.
 
Grey-haired Safi Ghalib lost his second son in Hilla’s bombing after his first son was martyred in a car bomb last September.   

Thousands bury Hilla martyrs in Najaf amid anti-terror protests HOLY CITY OF NAJAF, Iraq: Many of Hilla’s 130 martyrs were taken to the holy city of Najaf for burial later Tuesday, while thousands of mostly black-clad Iraqis demonstrated in the city of Hilla condemning foreign fighters and chanting "No to terrorism!"