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| Death toll soars in Baghdad suicide bomb attack | |||
| 2016-03-07 | |||
No one immediately grabbed credit for the attack, which bore the hallmarks of ISIS. ISIS and other Sunni snuffies frequently use boom-mobiles and suicide kabooms to target public areas and government buildings in their bid to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government in Baghdad. Among the dead were 39 civilians, while the rest were members of the security forces. The attacker struck shortly after noon when the checkpoint at one of the entrances to the city of Hillah was crowded with dozens of cars, a police officer said. He added that up to 65 other people were maimed and nearly 50 cars were damaged. Hillah is located about 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Baghdad. A medical official confirmed the causality figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information. 64 die in truck bomb attack in Babylon (IraqiNews.com) Babylon – Babylon Police Commander Maj. Gen. Ali Hassan Kawa announced on Sunday, that 64 people had been either killed or wounded in a suicide bombing targeted a checkpoint in northern Hilla area. Maj. Gen. Ali Hassan Kawa said in a press statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “A booby-trapped truck driven by a suicide bomber exploded, at noon today, in Atar checkpoint at the entrance of the ancient city of Babylon (7 km north of Hilla), killing seven people and wounding 57 others, including security personnel, in addition to destructing the checkpoint completely.” Kawa added, “Ambulances transferred the injured to nearby hospitals in Mahaweel and Hilla areas and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department.”
ISIS claims Sunday Baghdad bombing [KhaleejTimes] Daesh claimed responsibility for a suicide truck bomb blast that killed at least 47 people on Sunday south of Baghdad. In a statement posted on social media, Daesh named the splodydope bomber who detonated his explosives-laden truck at a checkpoint outside the city of Hilla as Abu Islam Al Ansari. "The battle has just begun and that the worst is yet to come," the statement said. The group claimed that the explosion had killed and wounded "more than 90" people. The attack was the deadliest bombing by Daesh in Iraq this year.
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