Baghdad hit by series of attacks that kill 15
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A series of attacks across Baghdad killed 15 people and wounded more than 50 yesterday, said Iraqi officials.
The attacks included an explosion at a weapons warehouse that set off munitions and sent a huge plume of smoke over the Iraqi capital.
Yesterday’s attacks underscore the poor security situation in Baghdad, which has been subject to several recent large-scale attacks, including a shopping center bombing last July that killed nearly 300.
At least three rockets landed in eastern Baghdad, killing five and wounding 15, police said, adding that the rockets that hit the east of the city appeared to have been set off by a blast at a weapons storage facility.
An AP reporter at the scene said members of the powerful Shiite militia group Asaib Ahl al-Haq were present at the scene of the attack. Police said it was unclear which powerful Shiite militia was responsible for the weapons store.
The blast at the weapons cache set off munitions stored there, sending a huge plume of smoke over the city skyline.
In the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliya, a bomb struck a shopping street, killing two and wounding eight, police said.
Two bomb attacks on fruit and vegetable markets across the city killed five and wounded 20, officials from the Interior Ministry said.
Meanwhile, a bomb attack on a commercial area in western Baghdad killed three people and wounded eight, police and hospital officials said.
Yesterday also marked the martyrdom anniversary of the ninth Shiite Imam. In Baghdad pilgrims descended on the Kadhimiya shrine in Baghdad to commemorate the day, but none of the attacks wounded pilgrims.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the Islamic State group has often said it was behind deadly bombings targeting Shiite civilians in Baghdad.
Iraq’s army has pushed IS militants out of the major cities of Ramadi and Fallujah, and the government has pledged it will retake Mosul, the country’s second largest city, from the Islamic State group by the end of this year.
On Thursday night, an attack on Iraqi security forces killed nine fighters and wounded 15, according to Karim al-Nouri, the spokesman for Iraq’s government-sanctioned mainly Shiite militias, known as the Popular Mobilization Forces.
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