Today is the deadline for most Iraqi’s to register to vote in the October referendum on the constitution.

And the toll rises.
Reports are unclear about the number of dead Shia citizens who were gathered outside a mosque in northern Bagdad when mortars hit the crowd.

Scores more people were killed in their panicked stampede to get away when the railing of a bridge they were on gave way.
Early reports put the death toll on at over 600, over 200 injured.

Udpate: The death toll in the panicked push across the bridge is reaching 1000.

From the BBC: Muslim Festival Deaths

- July 1987 - Saudi security forces clash with Iranian pilgrims in the holy city of Mecca, 402 killed
- July 1990 - 1,426 pilgrims killed in a stampede in Mecca
- May 1994 - 270 pilgrims killed in Mecca stampede
- April 1997 - More than 340 pilgrims killed and 1,500 injured in fires at tent city in Mina, Saudi Arabia
- Feb 2004 - 251 pilgrims killed in stampede at Mina