BAGHDAD
Daesh claimed responsibility via its affiliated website Monday for a chain of explosions that rocked the Iraqi capital late Sunday and left 21 dead and 71 injured.
The group claimed they killed 150 Iraqi forces, including members of the Shia militia al-Hashd al-Shaabi.
At least 21 people were killed and 71 others injured in separate bombings that rocked the Iraqi capital late Sunday, according to a local police source.
“A car bomb went off near a market in Baghdad,” the source told Anadolu Agency. “As police and civilians gathered at the scene, a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing 11 more people and injuring 23.”
The same source went on to say that ten other people had been killed – and 48 injured – by three separate car bombs that went off in Baghdad’s Al-Kazemiyah, Al-Iskan and Al-Bunouk districts.
In February, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, citing “improved security conditions” in the capital, lifted the city’s nighttime curfew, which had been in effect for eight years.
