A prominent member of the Hezbollah party in Iraq was among the many persons killed in the series of attacks on Tuesday during the holy Ashura day, a party source said Wednesday. A Hezbollah source said that Hezbollah leader al-Mula al-Nouri al-Ghariri was killed while he was part of a security team guarding a Shiite procession in the northern Baghdad district of Kazimiyah when it came under a mortar shell attack. Reports on Tuesday said that 17 persons were killed and 72 wounded when more than 25 mortar shells struck the procession. That attack was one of many across Iraq on Tuesday aimed at Shiites as they marked the Ashura day, with dozens of persons killed. Meanwhile in a further attack n Wednesday, two Iraqis were killed and 10 others wounded in a car bomb blast in the Amin district of eastern Baghdad, state-run al-Iraqiya TV reported.