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Twin car bombs near two hotels kill 10 in Iraqi capital

Smoke billows from the Ishtar Hotel in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, after a bomb attack on May 28, 2015. © Sky News

At least 10 people have been killed in two separate car bomb attacks targeting two hotels in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, Iraqi officials say.

According to Iraqi officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, a car bomb exploded in the parking lot of the Babylon Hotel in the capital late on Thursday. At least six people were killed and 14 others sustained injuries in the blast.

A minute later, the officials said, another car bomb went off in the parking lot of Ishtar, formerly the Sheraton Hotel, in Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 13 others.

Iraqi medical officials have confirmed the number of casualties in the incidents.

No group or individual has claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks yet, but Iraqi authorities often blame such attacks on ISIL Takfiri terrorists.

Baghdad has been recently the scene of deadly bomb attacks. On May 23, a civilian was killed and five people sustained injuries after a bomb went off close to a restaurant in the central Sheikh Omar neighborhood.

The bombings in the capital come as the Iraqi army, along with volunteer forces, is battling the Takfiri terrorists across the country, especially in the provinces of Anbar and Salahuddin.

The Iraqi forces have managed to kill a large number of the militants and to drive them out of many areas in the two provinces in the past few days.

Since early June 2014, when the ISIL terrorist group started its deadly acts of terrorism in Iraq, the northern and western parts of the country have been in chaos. The city of Mosul is under the control of the Takfiri militants, who have swept through parts of the country’s heartland.

The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) has said a total of 812 Iraqis were killed and another 1,726 injured in acts of terrorism in April. Almost 320 civilians were killed in Baghdad alone, according to the UN agency.

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