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| Iraq |
| Suicide bomb kills at least 13 near Baghdad |
| 2016-05-11 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An evening suicide kaboom in a commercial area in a city northeast of Baghdad killed at least 13 people, Iraqi officials said Tuesday. The bomber blew up his explosives-laden minibus shortly before sunset Monday near a bakery and a falafel restaurant in a Shiite neighborhood of the city of Baqouba, a police officer said. The kaboom in the neighborhood of Shifta also maimed at least 60 others, he added. Baqouba, the historic provincial capital of Iraq’s Diyala province, is 35 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad. A medical official confirmed casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to release the information. No group has grabbed credit for the attack, but it bore the hallmarks of ISIS, which controls large stretches of territory in the country’s west and north, as well as Iraq’s second-largest city, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . |
| Posted by:Fred |