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| Four killed in ISIS suicide attack on Iraq party HQ |
| 2018-04-09 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A suicide kaboom targeting a political party headquarters in western Iraq has killed four people and injured seven others, including a candidate in polls set for May, officials said on Sunday. The ISIS group issued a statement claiming the attack, which took place late Saturday in the tribal desert province of al-Anbar. A local security official told AFP on condition of anonymity that "two jacket wallahs disguised as soldiers entered the al-Hal Party headquarters", a prominent party in the region. One of the attackers "detonated his boom belt while politicians held a meeting" at the campaign headquarters in the city of Hit, about 200 kilometers west of Baghdad, General Qassam al-Mohammadi, head of army operations in the area, told AFP. Candidate maimed "Three members of the security forces were killed and seven people, including candidate Zineb Abdel Hamid al-Hiti, were maimed," he said. A municipal employee on Sunday also succumbed to injuries sustained in the attack, the anonymous official said. He said the second attacker detonated his belt shortly after the first, but did not cause any casualties. Medical sources confirmed the corpse count of four and said candidate Hiti had been hospitalized with light injuries. |
| Posted by:Fred |