Civil war looms as Iraq weeps over bridge of 1,000 sorrows

"...As hundreds of people were buried at the end of last week tension was visibly rising between the communities. Ahmed Chasib, burying his wife Nadia Arif next to her sister, said that people in the strongly Sunni district of Adhamiyah had attacked the Shia marchers. "When we were near the bridge, the women ahead of us were hit by chemicals ... from Adhamiyah," he said. "Whoever told you that they helped us was a liar...""
The Independent