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Iraq
Car bomb attacks kill 57 people in Iraq
2015-10-06
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least 57 people were killed on Monday in car kabooms in Baghdad and the north and south of Iraq, police and medical sources said.

One attack took place near a crowded market in the town of Khalis, about 80 kilometers northeast of Baghdad, killing 35 people, police said.

"The driver begged police to be allowed to park his vehicle in order to buy medication from a nearby pharmacy and five minutes later it (the bomb) went off and caused huge destruction," police captain Mohammed al-Tamimi said.

In the town of Al Zubair, about 15 kilometers southwest of the oil town of Basra, a second attack took place also near a crowded market. Ten people died.

Another boom-mobile went kaboom! in the Hussainiya district of the northern outskirts of Baghdad, killing 12 people, police and medical sources said.
Posted by:Fred

#1  From The Times of Israel:

IS says in a statement posted on a Twitter account linked to the group that it carried out Monday’s attack in Basra’s southwest suburb of al-Zubair, targeting Shiites. The Sunni-dominated al-Zubair is located 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of Basra.
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-10-06 17:56