Two suicide bombings claimed by Daesh in a town near Baghdad killed two policemen and wounded eight others on Thursday, police and medics said, a day after Daesh bombs left at least 80 people dead in the Iraqi capital.
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But a statement from Real Madrid said 16 members of a supporters club had died in the attack.
Real Madrid said its players would wear black arm bands today to honour the victims.
A woman reacts at the scene of a vehicle bomb attack in Baghdad’s mainly Shi’ite district of Sadr City, Iraq, May 11, 2016.
The attackers used machineguns to spray the cafe with bullets from cars parked outside for about 10 minutes before leaving the scene, the Reuters news agency reported.
Three terrorists forced their way into the café hosting the fan meeting at around midnight before opening fire at the fans who were reportedly watching old recording of the Spanish football club.
The brutal attack shortly followed a two-day wave of bombings in Baghdad that reportedly killed almost 100 people.
Real Madrid extends all of its solidarity to the people of Irak, who suffer the excessive injustices of extreme violence.
“ISIS has receded somewhat militarily; they don’t have a. standing army to hold territory”, Sowell said.
He said 16 people were killed, including several members of the police and the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary organisation that includes most Shiite militias.
Islamic State said in a statement distributed online by supporters that three suicide attackers targeting Shi’ite militiamen had detonated their explosives, though security sources said they had only identified one bomber.
Sadly, a number of their ardent supporters were killed in a space that they had made a remote corner of Madrid by cowardly terrorists intent on murdering as many innocent civilians as possible.
“They (ISIS) don’t like football, they think it’s anti-Muslim”. The most recent being incidents in Baghdad on Wednesday that killed more than 90 people.
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“This is their timeline, it’s their battle plan, it’s their country and their territory, and we will be in support of them in whatever timeline or sequencing of operations they plan to take”, he told reporters Thursday at the Pentagon.
