Sunday, May 1, 2016

ISIS/ISIL claims twin bombings in southern Iraq that killed 33

The "Islamic State" group claimed responsibility for rare bombings in southern Iraq that killed at least 33 people on Sunday.

The jihadist organisation claimed in a statement posted on social media that two suicide attackers detonated car bombs targeting members of the security forces in the city of Samawa.

"The hospitals have received 33 dead," a senior official in the Muthanna health department, which covers Samawa, told AFP. An officer in Muthanna Operations Command confirmed the toll.

They said at least 50 people were also wounded in the blasts in Samawa, 230 kilometers (145 miles) south of Baghdad.

"Two car bombs went off in town. The first one was at around midday near a bus station in the city center," a senior police officer in Muthanna province said.

"The other exploded about five minutes later, 400 meters from the spot of the first explosion," he said.

Samawa is the capital of Muthanna and lies deep in Iraq's Shiite heartland and such attacks there are rare.

Muthanna also borders Saudi Arabia and a vast Iraqi desert that connects the troubled province of Anbar with the south.

A car bomb just outside Baghdad on Saturday killed at least 23 people, according to security and medical sources...
 [i24news.tv by AFP]
1/5/16
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