10 killed in two bomb blasts in Iraq

5 Dariya News

Baghdad 23-Apr-2015

At least 10 people were killed and 35 wounded in two bomb blasts in central Iraq on Wednesday, a police source said.A suicide bomber blew himself up near a bus stop in the city of Samarra, about 120 km north of Baghdad, leaving at least eight people killed and 17 others wounded, according to a Xinhua report. The source said that the victims were pilgrims at the shrine of Imam Ali al-Hadi.Earlier, a booby-trapped car detonated near a restaurant in the Talbiyah district in eastern Baghdad, leaving two people dead and 18 wounded, the source added.Iraq has been witnessing some of the worst violence in many years. Terrorism-related violence has killed 5,576 civilians and injured 11,666 in Iraq this year, according to a UN report. The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group had taken control of large territories in the country and in June last year, had declared a “caliphate” in the areas it controls in Iraq and the neighbouring Syria under its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.