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| Triple Bombing in Iraq's Diyala Kills 58, Wounds more than 100 |
| 2015-08-12 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] Three kabooms, two of them suicide kabooms, killed 58 people near Baquba, the capital of Iraq's restive eastern province of Diyala on Monday, police and medics said. The blasts came less than a month after a massive suicide kaboom left at least 120 dead in Khan Bani Saad, which is also in Diyala. The deadliest of Monday's bombings was in an area called Huwaydir. Security sources and medics at the main hospital in Baquba said at least 20 people were killed there and 45 maimed, the initial tolls stated. "A jacket wallah driving a booby-trapped vehicle went kaboom!in the middle of the central market area in Huwaydir," a police lieutenant-colonel said. Another suicide bomber drove his explosives-laden vehicle past a checkpoint before blowing himself up in Kanaan district, killing at least 10 and wounding the same number, a police captain said. An improvised bomb also went off in a neighborhood between Baquba and Huwaydir, killing three and wounding four, the same source said. It was not immediately clear how many of the victims were civilians. Following the July 17 bombing in Khan Bani Saad, the provincial authorities had tightened security across the province, especially in Baquba which lies about 70 kilometers (45 miles) north of Baghdad. The Khan Bani Saad blast came on the eve of the feast marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan and shocked the nation. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Monday's triple bombing, which bore all the hallmarks of the so-called '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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group. Baghdad announced in January that Iraqi forces had "liberated" Diyala, a religiously and ethnically mixed province which was partly overrun by ISIL after the forces of Evil launched a brutally effective offensive last June. The takfiris no longer have fixed positions in the province, but have reverted to their old tactics of planting boom-mobiles and carrying out suicide operations or hit-and-run attacks. |
| Posted by:Fred |