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Iraq
Eight people killed, wounded in bomb blast, northeast of Baquba
2018-05-06
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Eight people, including security personnel were killed and injured as a kaboom took place on an agricultural road, northeast of Baquba, Diyala, local sources said on Friday.

Speaking to AlSumaria News, Awwad al-Rubei’y, head of the security committee of Abu Sayda town, said "three non-combatants were killed late on Thursday in a kaboom on an agricultural road near Berwana region, at the outskirts of Abu Sayda."

Moreover, five security personnel were killed and injured due to the blast.

"Three security personnel were killed, while two others were maimed, late yesterday, in a blast near Berwana village,"Adnan al-Tamimi, head of Muqdadiya municipal council, told Alghad Press on Friday.

The blast, according to Tamimi, "targeted security personnel while on their way back home."

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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
continues to launch sporadic attacks across Iraq against troops. Security reports indicate that the Death Eater group still poses threat against stability in the country.

A total of 68 Iraqis were killed and another 122 injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in April, according to casualty figures recorded by the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
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