Bomb attacks claim five lives in Iraq

Published November 17, 2014
A vehicle burns at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Kadhimiya district. — Reuters/File
A vehicle burns at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Kadhimiya district. — Reuters/File

BAGHDAD: A series of explosions in Baghdad killed at least five people and wounded nearly 20 on Sunday, including a bombing claimed by the Islamic State militant group near the Baghdad International Airport.

The first blast took place near a police patrol in the suburb of Radwaniya, killing two policemen and wounding five.

Police also reported a roadside bombing on a commercial street in the Hay Jami’a neighbourhood, which killed three people and wounded nine.

Near the Baghdad International Airport, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a car bomb at one of the first airport checkpoints, wounding five people and causing extensive damage to cars in the parking lot. In a statement posted on a militant website, the group identified the attacker as a man named Abu Muawiya al-Falluji, saying he was targeting Americans leaving the airport.

The statement could not immediately be verified but it was posted on a website frequently used by the group. The blast hit a United Nations convoy of three vehicles that was passing at the time of the explosion, but no one in the convoy was wounded, the UN said on Sunday.

Published in Dawn, November 17th, 2014

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