Another attack in the town of al-Zubair, about 15km (9 miles) south-west of the oil town of Basra, is reported to have killed at least 10 people.
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A series of auto bombings across Iraq Monday killed at least 56 people and wounded dozens as the government continued its efforts to combat extremism across the country.
Jabbar al-Saadi of the Basra provincial council’s security committee said that the suicide bombing occurred around 5:30 p.m. local time (1430 GMT) on Monday evening in a popular marketplace known as Souk al-Halaqin in Zubayr, few miles away from Basra.
“The warriors of a given caliphate has been able to discharge a sitting 4wd bomb amidst a meeting of polytheist Rafidha in Basra”,…
Iraq has been witnessing a few of the worst violence in years.
Two other vehicle bombs went off in areas north of Baghdad that have been routinely targeted by the jihadists.
At least 14 people were killed and 25 others were wounded in a third auto bombing in Baghdad’s Husseiniya neighborhood, reported Associated Press.
Diyala, a religiously and ethnically mixed province that Islamic State partly took over a year ago, was declared liberated by the government in January. At least 12 people were killed in the attack and 30 were wounded when the auto bomb tore through a commercial street, a police official said.
The Baghdad governorate alone accounted for 257 of the deaths.
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However, the United Nations says these figures cover only the casualties that can be verified, and are likely to be far below the actual tolls.
