HILLA, Iraq: Number of those Husseini mourners martyred in double suicide bomb attack in Hilla on Tuesday has increased. According to reports on Wednesday at least 325 Husseini mourners have been martyred while over 200 were severely injured, some in critical condition.

They were traveling through Hilla en route to Karbala for Arbayeen Al-Husseini (forty days after the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (AS)) that falls on March 10 this year.

Reports said the mourners kissed martyrdom when two terrorists keeping enmity for devotees of Ahlul Beit (AS) exploded themselves in a large camp which was erected in the city of Hilla to receive and facilitate the mourners.

Dozens others have been slaughtered in attacks across Iraq as they made their way to Karbala for Arbayeen.

Gunmen attacked a pair of minibuses, martyring two mourners en route to the commemoration and wounding six others in Latifiya, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Baghdad.

Shortly after the first attack, gunmen opened fire on a group of pilgrims walking in Latifiya, leaving one martyred and wounding three others.

In addition, a car bomb martyred four mourners and injured 14 others in Baghdad's Yarmouk district.

In Baghdad's southern Dora district, a car bomb left 12 mourners martyred and wounded 38 others.

A car bomb in western Baghdad's Qadssiya neighborhood martyred one pilgrim and injured three others.

Gunmen attacked a minibus in the Mahdiya neighborhood of southern Baghdad, martyring eight pilgrims.