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Iraqi officials: Car bombings in Baghdad kill eleven people

By Associated Press  |   Published: 20th May 2017 04:39 AM  |  

Last Updated: 20th May 2017 04:39 AM  |   A+A A-   |  

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A general view shows destruction the day after a suicide bombing targeting a checkpoint at a main southern entrance to Baghdad, on March 30, 2017. | AFP

BAGHDAD: Two car bombs in southwestern Baghdad killed 11 people, including four police officers, and wounded at least 20, according to Iraqi police and hospital officials.

The first attack targeted a police checkpoint in the neighbourhood and moments later, the second blast hit a nearby street crowded with civilians, the officials said yesterday, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to reporters.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but it bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State group, which has claimed similar bombings in the past.

The attack comes as Iraqi forces, backed by the US-led coalition, are slowly moving in on the last neighbourhoods held by the Islamic State group in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.

IS now only holds a handful of neighbourhoods in Mosul, including the Old City where the most intense battles of the operation are expected to play out.

Coalition officials say they believe a few hundred IS fighters remain in Mosul, holding hundreds of thousands of civilians as human shields.

Iraqi commanders have said they hope to fully liberate the city before the holy month of Ramadan, which is to begin at the end of next week.

IS overran Mosul nearly three years ago in a blitz that brought nearly a third of Iraqi territory under the Sunni militant group's control. Since then a massive influx of weapons and training from Iran, as well as a US-led campaign of coalition airstrikes, has clawed back more than half of the territory IS once held.

Iraqi and coalition officials have repeatedly warned that after Mosul, IS will likely return to its insurgent roots as it loses more territory in both Iraq and neighbouring Syria.

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