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| Bomb blasts in Iraq's Baghdad Province kill 12 |
| 2015-07-22 |
| [Iran Press TV] Three kabooms targeting civilians and security forces in Iraq's Baghdad Governorate have killed at least 12 people and injured dozens more. Security sources said Tuesday that three people were killed in a boom-mobile south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. According to al-Sumeriyah news channel, the car bomb which exploded near a gas station in Baghdad's Zafarniyah district also injured 12 others. A source speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... said those maimed in the attack were at death's door. Another attack targeting Baghdad's al-Jadidah neighborhood, east of the Iraqi capital, killed five civilians and injured 16 others, according to a report by Al Jazeera. Further to the north, an attack in Tarmiya district killed four security officers and injured eight others. Unidentified sources said the blast came after a man attacked a joint command of police and military forces in Lakes area in the district, about 50 kilometers north of Baghdad. No group has claimed the attacks, although they bear the hallmarks of attacks by ISIL, a terrorist group which is in control of some territories west and north of Iraq. |
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