Not less than eight people were killed by bombs and rocket fire in Baghdad on Friday, police and medical sources said. Reuters
report:
They said a bomb exploded in the predominantly Sunni
neighborhood of
Al-Saydiya, in southern Baghdad, killing three civilians
while two Katyusha rockets hit the nearby neighborhood of al-Shurta,
killing two people.
Three more people were killed when another bomb exploded in Saba al-Bour neighborhood in the north of the capital.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, which came
as Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi’s government battles Islamic State
fighters who control large swathes of northern and western Iraq, and have sent bombers into the capital. On Tuesday, a string of deadly attacks killed at least 37 people.
Police also discovered the bodies on Friday of six unidentified young
men in Baghdad’s northern al-Husseiniya district. The men, who had been
shot dead, were blindfolded and their hands were tied behind their
backs.
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