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Iraq
Over 50 casualties in two bomb blasts in Salahuddin
2018-09-13
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Over forty people were killed and injured, as a result of an kaboom that targeted a restaurant, south of Biji town in Salahuddin province, the Iraqi Health Ministry said on Wednesday.

"The corpse count of the blast that hit al-Qalaa restaurant in al-Hajjaj region, north of Tikrity, reached up to seven people, while 42 others were maimed," the ministry’s spokesperson Saif al-Badr told AlSumaria News.

A brief statement by the Security Media Center said earlier that " a terrorist attack, carried out by a booby-trapped vehicle, that was parked outside one of the restaurants on the main road of Biji-Tikrit took place."

In related news, the source said "a bomb kaboom targeted a vehicle in Qunitera village, in the western side of Shirqat town, leaving a civilian killed and two others injured."
Rudaw adds:
A vehicle packed with explosives blew up on a bus in front of a restaurant in the town of Hajaj near Tikrit killing 6 and wounding 11 others, Jamal I'kab, head of Saladin province's media office said.
"The restaurant lies on the Baghdad-djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
road and travelers usually stop there to rest." L'kab said.

He blamed ISIS for the attack.
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