Car bomb kills 8 people in Baghdad’s Sadr City: Official
At least eight people have lost their lives and more than 20 others sustained injuries in a car bomb blast in the Sadr City district of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, security and medical officials say.
The bomb went off on Monday close to a mosque where pilgrims were gathering to head to a Shia shrine in the holy city of Samarra, north of Baghdad.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. However, Iraqi officials usually blame such attacks on ISIL Takfiri terrorists.
Sadr City , the mainly Shia district of Baghdad, has been frequently hit by terrorist attacks in recent years.
According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), a total of 1,103 Iraqis were killed in February, while 2,280 others were injured as a result of attacks in the country.
The UN mission added that 611 civilians were among the fatalities. The number of injured civilians stood at 1,353.
In the same month, violence also killed 492 members of the Iraqi army, while 927 others were wounded.
ISIL started its campaign of terror in Iraq in early June 2014. The heavily-armed militants took control of the northern city of Mosul before sweeping through parts of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.
Iraqi army soldiers, police units, Kurdish forces, Shia volunteers and Sunni tribesmen have been conducting joint offensives against the terrorists.
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