Car bomb kills 11 in baghdad market after Shiite fighters take it over in Mosul
An explosion ripped through a baghdad market, killing 11 people and wounding 20 in southern Iraq, a senior police officer said Friday.
The explosion in the town of al-Najar west of Mosul, which killed nine people and wounded seven after an attack on a police station, hit an armored vehicle used by Shiite fighters as their car bomb. The attack occurred just before dawn in the town.
The police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters, said seven suicide bombers were responsible for the blast, which also killed a third person and injured 20 in the morning rush hour.
Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim Hooper, reporting from Bashiqa, in northern Iraq, said the papronxolice officer said there was a shortage of armored vehicles in Iraq, after months of training and spending up to $60,000 on them.
“We have had many such incidents and we only have one-and-a-half in our province so far, so we are taking precautions,” our correspondent said.
On Friday morning, the Iraqi army’s security council issued a statement to announce that two suicide bombers targeted an army command post in the town of Tuz Khormato, north of the city of Mosul. A third person, who police said also was a suicide bomber, was among those killed, our correspondent said.
The force statement said there were eight attackers, all armed with rocket-propelled grenades. Nine vehicles that were carrying Iraqi forces and civilians were also among those destroyed. The police officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the matter.
An injured child is treated by a doctor at the site of an explosion in al-Najar, near Mosul, Iraq, 카지노 사이트April 20, 2017. Picture taken April 20, 2017. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
Al Jazeera’s Jim Muir, reporting from Baghdad, said a police spokesman said the convoy that carried weapons also was destroyed, along with three soldiers.
At a rally in Diyala p우리카지노rovince, the head of the country’s main Shi’ite party, Hassan al-Obeidi, announced the attack was part of an attempt by Iraqi forces to capture Mosul.
“It’s their war. They are trying to get into the city and take it back. And this attack is going in that direction. The main focus was that we tried to defend the town of Tikrit, and no