Death toll from Iraq pilgrim bombing rises to 63

HILLA, Iraq, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The death toll from Sunday's suicide bomb attack on Iraqi pilgrims heading to a Shi'ite festival south of Baghdad has risen to 63, a health official said on Monday.

Sattar al-Jashami, spokesman for the health department in Babil province, said the blast in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad had killed 63 people, revising previous official estimates of 40 dead.

(Reporting by Habib al-Zubaidi; writing by Michael Holden; editing by Ross Colvin)