Iraq's second largest city under curfew after shrine attack

BAGHDAD (AP) Iraq's prime minister has imposed a curfew in Iraq's second-largest city after bombers leveled a Sunni shrine just outside of Basra.

Police say gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked the shrine last night. They returned again this morning, planting the bombs inside the structure that destroyed it.

A top Basra security official says the bombers were disguised as cameramen who asked guards for permission to Film inside the shrine. Minutes after they left, a huge explosion rocked the building, destroying the dome and minaret.

No injuries were reported.

In Baghdad, a curfew remains in place two days after suspected al-Qaida bombers blew the minarets off a sacred Shiite shrine north of Baghdad.

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