At least eleven people including a policeman were killed and 21 others injured Sunday in Iraq in an attack on a factory in Baghdad suburbs, said police sources.
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Elsewhere, four separate bomb attacks left another 15 people dead and 46 wounded in the fifth-straight day of IS-claimed attacks in and around the Iraqi capital.
Some of the attackers detonated suicide belts while others were killed by bullets, according to Maan, who said explosions set fire to 3 gas tanks.
The Sunday attacks killed 29 people across Iraq.
The wave of attacks comes as Iraqi ground forces have achieved a number of key territorial victories against the extremist group. 14 people died, and at least 27 others were injured in the bombing, according to police.
ISIS militants attacked a gas plant in Baghdad Sunday, killing five police officers and leaving tanks at the complex ablaze, police officials told CNN.
Islamic State (IS), which controls swathes of the country’s north and west, has carried out a string of bombings this week that killed around 100 people.
The group recently increased their attacks far from the front lines in a campaign that Iraqi officials say is an attempt to distract from their recent battlefield losses. Following that, another attack in the Shiite neighborhood of al-Kadhimiya killed 17 and a suicide auto bomber struck a checkpoint manned by Shiites in the Sunni neighborhood of al-Jamia, killing 12.
Iraq’s government has been planning a major offensive to recapture the northern city of Mosul, the largest city under ISIS control.
They’ve since lost significant territory.
IS has declared a state of emergency in their de-facto capital of Raqqa in Syria, a USA official has said while asserting that the dreaded terror network is feeling “threatened”.
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“We know this enemy feels threatened, as they should”, said Col. Steve Warren, a coalition military spokesman in Baghdad.
