Suicide bombing north of Baghdad kills 16, Islamic State claims attack
Source: Reutrs
A suicide car bombing claimed by Islamic State killed 16 people including a group of women and children packed into a minibus outside an Iraqi town on Monday morning, police and hospital sources said.
A police officer at the scene said most of the victims died inside their vehicles while waiting at a checkpoint to enter Khalis, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad.
"We still have charred bodies inside many vehicles including a minibus packed with women and children," the police captain said, requesting anonymity.
Amaq, a news agency that supports Islamic State, said the attack had targeted Iraqi troops in Khalis, which is located in the eastern province of Diyala, a mixed Sunni-Shi'ite Muslim area bordering Iran.
Iraq declared victory over the Sunni insurgents in Diyala more than a year ago, but the militants remain active despite holding no significant territory there. Islamic State has stepped up attacks across the country even as it incurs battlefield setbacks in the country's north and west.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-idUSKCN1050IG
Botany
(70,289 posts)hibbing
(10,076 posts)Who started this war of choice that has spun the whole region into instability. While he sits in his gated mansion painting dogs and sleeps like a baby.
Peace
Botany
(70,289 posts).... Cheney who along with his family made tens of millions of $s on the war
isn't bothered in the slightest by the horror his war has brought.
hibbing
(10,076 posts)I have my doubts, but we can only hope.
Peace
Botany
(70,289 posts)but he is drinking himself blind in order to cope. I really hate the SCOTUS (2000 bush v Gore)
bush and Cheney, Fox and other media outlets that covered up and help to sell the Iraqi war,
and all those republicans who talked about "freedom fries" and sold us the Iraqi war.
I helped a neighbor's son who is now dead from brain cancer (same as Beau Biden's) that
he got in Iraq from KBR's "burn pits."