[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi officials say a series of bombings and shooting across the Iraqi capital has killed 13 people and maimed 24.No group immediately grabbed credit for the attacks. The violence comes as Iraqi forces are pushing to retake a small town from ISIS south of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, the country’s second-largest city that is still in ISIS hands.
The police say separate roadside kaboomings on busy commercial streets in northern and southern Baghdad killed five and maimed 17 on Thursday. Two sticky bombs attached to cars just south and east of Baghdad killed two and maimed seven.
And three shootings in different Baghdad neighborhoods killed six people.
Police and hospital officials confirmed the casualty toll, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
as they were not authorized to talk to news hounds.