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6 killed in car bomb explosion west of Iraqi capital

People inspect the wreckages of burnt cars on May 1, 2015, a day after a car bomb attack in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad. © AFP

At least six people have been killed in a car bomb attack west of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.

According to Iraqi security officials on Saturday, a man rammed his explosive-laden car into a military base in the central town of Garma, where the Iraqi army and volunteer forces have been fighting ISIL Takfiri terrorist group.

The incident killed three Iraqi troops and three volunteer forces. Nine other soldiers were injured in the attack.

Garma is located east of the strategic city of Fallujah, one of the strongholds of the Takfiri terrorists in Iraq.

Iraqi forces take position during fight against ISIL Takfiri terrorists in Garma, west of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, April 26, 2015. © AFP

On Thursday, separate bomb attacks targeted public places in and around Baghdad, leaving 16 people dead and more than three dozen others wounded.

The deadliest of the attacks took place in Baghdad’s northwestern neighborhood of Mansour, where a car bomb blast killed five people and injured 12 others.

The ISIL Takfiri terrorist group, with members from several Western countries, controls swathes of land in Iraq and Syria, and has been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.

Northern and western parts of Iraq have been in chaos since ISIL started its campaign of terror in early June 2014.

Over the past months, the Iraqi army has launched large-scale operations to flush Takfiri out of the country’s strategic cities.

In April, the Iraqi army, backed by volunteer forces including both Shia and Sunni members, managed to fully recapture Tikrit, the capital city of Salahuddin, from the ISIL militants.

Iraqi forces also seized full control of the key city of Ramadi in the western province of Anbar from ISIL terrorists in the same month.

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