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| ISIL suicide attack on Iraq power plant kills seven |
| 2017-09-03 |
| [Al Jazeera] Disguised suicide bombers have killed seven people and wounded 12 others in an attack on a power plant north of Baghdad. General Qassem al-Tamimi, head of a police unit in charge of protecting installations, said three attackers wearing military uniforms and armed with grenades entered the facility near the city of Samarra early on Saturday. A police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP news agency one of the bombers detonated his explosives belt while two others were shot dead by security reinforcements who rushed to the scene in Samarra, about 100km north of the capital. He said seven people were killed and 12 wounded in the attack. Police and medical sources from a nearby hospital told Reuters news agency four policemen and three workers were killed in the assault, putting the number of wounded people at 13. |
| Posted by:Fred |