Car bomb explosion kills 4, injures 13 in Baghdad
Security officials in Iraq say at least four civilians have been killed in a massive bomb explosion in a residential area of the capital, Baghdad.
A police colonel told AFP that 13 people also sustained injuries on Tuesday, when an explosives-laden car went off near a mosque in Baghdad’s central district of Arasat al-Hindiya, Iraq’s Arabic-language al-Forat news agency reported.
Security forces immediately cordoned off the scene of the explosion, and ambulances carried the injured to nearby hospitals to receive medical treatment.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the bombing, but such attacks are usually blamed on the ISIL Takfiri terrorists.
The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) says a total of 812 Iraqis were killed and another 1,726 were injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict last month.
According to the UN mission, the number of civilian fatalities stood at 535. Violence also claimed the lives of 277 members of the Iraqi security forces in April.
A great portion of the fatalities was recorded in Baghdad, where 319 civilians were killed. Terrorist attacks also left another 846 injured.
Northern and western parts of Iraq have been in chaos since ISIL started its campaign of terror in early June 2014. The terrorists are in control of the second-largest city of Mosul and they have swept through parts of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.
Since then, Iraq’s army has been joined by Kurdish forces, Shia volunteers and Sunni tribesmen in operations to drive the ISIL terrorists out of the areas they have seized.
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