BREAKING NEWS: ISIS(ICIA) suicide bomber blows himself up at a FOOTBALL STADIUM near Baghdad, killing at least 65 people and injuring more than 60
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd after a local football game
At least 65 people have been killed and dozens injured near Baghdad
Bomber detonated his explosives just as the medals were being awarded
By TOM WYKE
DailyMail.com
25 March 2016
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd after a local football game in a village south of Baghdad, killing at least 65 people, police and medics said.
‘They were just handing the trophy to the winners, the suicide attacker blew himself up in the crowd,’ a police captain from the village, Al-Asriya, told AFP.
The police captain said more than 50 people were also wounded in the blast, near Iskandariyah, a town about 25 miles south of the capital.
A source at Iskandariyah hospital confirmed the toll, warning that the casualties figure were preliminary and could rise.
The medic told AFP that the attack took place around 7:00 pm with some source claiming that nearly 65 people were killed in the attack.
ISIS have reportedly claimed responsibility for the blast, having carried out a spate of attacks near Baghdad in recent months.
Iskandariyah is part of a mixed Sunni-Shiite area south of Baghdad which was once dubbed ‘the triangle of death’ and was badly affected by sectarian violence last decade.
Pushing back ISIS in this region after the jihadists took over large parts of the country in 2014 was one of the priorities of the government and allied Shiite militias.
That was achieved in a few months and IS has been largely eradicated from the area but violence – of a sectarian nature and crime-driven – has remained frequent.
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