At least 7 killed in bomb attacks around Baghdad

By Ibrahim Salih

BAGHDAD

At least seven people were killed in four separate bomb attacks around Baghdad late Friday, according to a security source.

Nasr al-Hanun, an Iraqi chief of security force, told Anadolu Agency that five civilians were killed and 16 others were injured by the bombs that were planted in two different residential areas and a roadside bomb in another area of the city.

Separately, a roadside bomb killed two Shia Hashd al-Shaabi militiamen and injured four others as a patrol car passed in Al-Taci, also in Baghdad.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks yet, but Iraqi authorities generally claim the Daesh terrorist group was responsible for such attacks.

Iraq has suffered a devastating security vacuum since mid-2014, when Daesh captured the northern city of Mosul – now the subject of a large offensive to retake it – and overran large swathes of territory in the northern and western parts of the country.

According to the UN, more than 3.4 million people are now displaced in Iraq – more than half of them children – while more than 10 million are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.