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Baghdad Bomb and Bullet Bulletin
 Civilians wounded in bomb attack in Sadr City Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Several civilians were wounded on Thursday when two sticky bombs exploded under two vehicles in east and central Baghdad, a security official has said. Interior Ministry spokesperson Saad Maan said in a statement that the bombs went off at the city of al-Sadr, east of Baghdad, and bab al-Sheikh at central Baghdad. Baghdad recurrently witnesses suicide bombings and booby-trap explosions, The violence surged with Islamic State militants taking over large areas of the country. Since 2014, violence surged in Iraq with the Islamic State militants taking over wide areas of the country, and the United Nations said earlier this month that 58000 people died since then. UN statistics say 3150 Iraqis were either killed or wounded in violence during October alone, with Baghdad marked as the most hit. Observers believe ISIS have begun to target several areas across Iraq to divert security focus on Mosul, where the group fights to defend its last bastion in Iraq under the brunt of continuous advancements by Iraqi government and popular troops. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Defense said it apprehended a three-member terrorist cell affiliated with ISIS’s so-called “State of Baghdad”. It said it found IEDs, explosive belts, hand grenades and cell phones in their possession. “That group was intending to target citizens at marketplaces and shopping areas in some regions of Baghdad,” a ministry statement said. Drivers of UN vehicles kill 2 in Baghdad Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ِAn Iraqi parliamentarian accused on Thursday drivers of a United Nations-owned vehicles of hitting two people dead in Baghdad before fleeing. Kamel al-Ghariri said in statements that UN cars rammed into two cars parked outside the Green Zone, killed a young man and a woman before running into the Green Zone “before finding out the international institution they belonged to. His statements did not mention the exact time of the incident. “Following up on the issue, and asking about monitoring cameras at the area, officials there said they had been switched off,” he said. “Is it possible that cameras at such a vital street be kept off?”. The two victims belonged to the cities of Yarmouk and Najaf, according to Ghariri, who held security authorities fully responsible for not operating the cameras and allowing cars into the Green Zone without knowing their destination, as he put it, vowing to champion an investigation of the incident at parliament. 1 dies in bomb attack in Abu Graib Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) One person was killed and four others were injured in a bombing that targeted a cattle market west of Baghdad. A source was quoted by Waradana.net as saying that the IED targeted a popular cattle market in Abu Gharib, adding that security cordoned the area off. Earlier on Thursday, Interior Ministry spokesperson Saad Maan said in a statement that another explosion killed one person at al-Shaab district, north of Baghdad. He aso stated that several people were wounded when two bombs exploded in two cars in al-Sadr city and Bab al-Sheikh. No party claimed responsibility for the bombings, but Islamic State militants had claimed earlier explosions in the capital and other Iraqi cities. Since 2014, violence surged in Iraq with the Islamic State militants taking over wide areas of the country, and the United Nations said earlier this month that 58000 people died since then. UN statistics say 3150 Iraqis were either killed or wounded in violence during October alone, with Baghdad marked as the most hit. Observers believe ISIS have begun to target several areas across Iraq to divert security focus on Mosul, where the group fights to defend its last bastion in Iraq under the brunt of continuous advancements by Iraqi government and popular troops. 2 die in four bombing in al-Shaab Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Baghdad Operations Command revealed on Thursday, that nine persons have been either killed or wounded in four different blasts in al-Shaab area, northeast of Baghdad. The command said in a press statement, “Four improvised explosive devices exploded, this morning, at al-Shaab area, northeast of Baghdad, killing two persons and wounding seven others.” “Security forces rushed the area of incident and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital, and the bodies to the forensic medicine department,” the statement added. Posted by: badanov 2016-12-02 |
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