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Daesh claims responsibility for Baghdad explosion

June 4, 2021 at 5:22 pm

A mural bearing the logo of Daesh on 1 March 2017 [AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images]

The Daesh terrorist group has claimed responsibility for yesterday’s explosion in Iraq’s capital Baghdad that killed at least two people and injured 23 others, Anadolu Agency reports.

The explosion occurred near the gates leading to the shrine of Imam Musa Al-Kadhim and Imam Muhammad Al-Jawad, the seventh and ninth imams of Shia Muslims.

An Iraqi doctor, preferring not to be named, at the Al-Kadhimiya Teaching Hospital said “the hospital received two bodies and 23 injured due to the explosion.”

Blasts in the Iraqi capital have become less frequent following the defeat of the terrorist group in 2017.

In January, twin suicide bombings ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital, killing 32 people and wounding dozens.

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