Three bombings in Baghdad kill 63 -police, medical sources

Record ID: 103169

  • Title: Three bombings in Baghdad kill 63 -police, medical sources
  • Date: 17th May 2016
  • Summary: BLOOD STAIN INSIDE VEHICLE
  • Embargoed: 1st June 2016 14:30
  • Keywords: Iraq bomb Sadr city Islamic State bombing
  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • City: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA0024I7516V
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A car bomb in Baghdad's Sadr City exploded on Tuesday (May 17), killing at least 19 people and leaving 17 wounded.
    Three bombings killed at least 63 people and wounded more than 100 in Baghdad on the same day, police and medical sources said, extending the deadliest spate of attacks in the Iraqi capital so far this year.
    A suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State in a marketplace in the northern, mainly Shi'ite Muslim district of al-Shaab earlier killed 38 people and wounded over 70 before the Sadr City explosion.
    Another car bomb, in the mixed Shi'ite-Sunni southern neighbourhood of al-Rasheed, killed six and wounded 21, the sources said, in what a military spokesman described as a suicide attack.
    There has been no claim of responsibility for the other two bombings.
    Security has improved somewhat in Baghdad in recent years, even as the Sunni militant Islamic State (IS) seized swathes of the country almost up to the outskirts of the capital.
    But attacks claimed by IS in and around the city last week killed more than 100 people, sparking anger in the streets over the government's failure to ensure security.
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