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Bomb blast kills one civilian, injures two others in western Baghdad blast
[Iraq News] Three persons were killed and injured as an IED blast occurred in western Baghdad, a security source said on Wednesday.

"A bomb planted near stores in al-Maalef region, southwest of Baghdad, went kaboom! leaving one person killed and two others maimed," the source told Alghad Press.

Earlier on Wednesday, Baghdad Operations Command declared defusing four bombs and confiscating explosives.

Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Sunni krazed killer turbans who proclaimed an "Islamic Caliphate" in Iraq and Syria in 2014.

Violence and armed conflicts claimed the lives of 317 Iraqis, and caused injuries to 403 others during the month of April, according to a monthly count by the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI).

The total figure of victims signaled a drop from 1115 victims in March.
Posted by: Fred 2017-05-25
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