{"id":3682,"date":"2016-03-06T15:16:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T15:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2016-03-06T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T15:16:51","slug":"at-least-60-killed-in-isis-suicide-bomb-attack-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/at-least-60-killed-in-isis-suicide-bomb-attack-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 60 killed in ISIS suicide bomb attack in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISIS claims responsibility for truck bomb that killed at least 60 people at Iraqi police checkpoint south of Baghdad<\/strong><\/p>\n

A truck bomb exploded at a crowded police checkpoint outside the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad, on Sunday, killing at least 60 people, officials and medical sources said.<\/p>\n

Hilla is the capital of Babylon province, a predominantly Shia region with some Sunni presence.<\/p>\n

Faleh al-Radhi, the head of the security committee at Babil provincial council, said “the attack was carried against a checkpoint at the northern entrance to Hilla.”<\/p>\n

“It’s the largest bombing in the Hilla province to date,” Falah Al-Radhi, head of the provincial security committee told Reuters. “The checkpoint, the nearby police station were destroyed as well as some houses and dozens of cars.”<\/p>\n

ISIS claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in a posting on the website of the Amaq news agency, which supports the ultra-hardline Sunni group. “A martyr’s operation with a truck bomb hit the Babylon Ruins checkpoint at the entrance of the city of Hilla, killing and wounding dozens,” the statement on the Amaq website said, according to Reuters<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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The wreckage of a vehicle is moved after bombing in Iraq kills 60 on 6 March 2016. Photo: REUTERS\/Alaa Al-Marjani<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Iraq has seen an upsurge in violence over the last month, with a number of suicide attacks taking place in and around Baghdad.<\/p>\n

According to United Nations figures, at least 670 Iraqis were killed last month due to on-going violence, of whom about two-thirds were civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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