Separate attacks kill 9 in Iraq capital
At least nine Iraqi people, including Iraqi policemen, have been killed and dozens others sustained injuries in a wave of attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
According to Iraqi police sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, the deadliest attack took place in the northern Sabi al-Bore neighborhood of the capital, in which four people were killed and seven were injured.
The sources added that in the eastern New Baghdad district, unidentified gunmen killed three Iraqi policemen and injured two others in a drive-by shooting.
Elsewhere, in a commercial area in the southwestern Suwaib neighborhood, two civilians lost their lives and 11 others were wounded in a bomb blast.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the acts of violence. However, Iraqi officials often blame such attacks on the Takfiri ISIL terrorists.
Meanwhile, eight people, including two women, lost their lives and 18 others sustained injuries last Thursday after a blast ripped through Baghdad’s central neighborhood of Bab al-Moatham.
A bomb explosion near a small restaurant in Baghdad’s northeastern district of Husseiniyah killed three people and wounded eight others.
According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), a total of 997 Iraqis lost their lives last month, while 2,172 others were injured.
The UN mission said the number of the civilians killed stood at 729, and the number of civilians injured was 1,785. Violence also claimed the lives of a further 268 members of the Iraqi security forces while 387 others sustained injuries.
A great portion of the fatalities was recorded in Baghdad, where 362 civilians were killed and 928 others were wounded.
The Takfiri ISIL terrorist group started its campaign of terror in Iraq in early June 2014. The heavily-armed militants took control of the city of Mosul before sweeping through parts of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.
Iraqi soldiers, police units, Kurdish forces, Shia volunteers and Sunni tribesmen have recently succeeded in driving the terrorists out of some areas in Iraq.
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