Just another normal day in Islamo-paradise
Iraq officials: Baghdad bombings kill 19; wound 36
BAGHDAD (AP) — Multiple bombings in the Iraqi capital killed at least 19 people and wounded 36, as Iraqi forces continued preparing for a large-scale operation to recapture the city of Tikrit from the Islamic State group.
The deadliest bombing struck a busy commercial street Monday in the Habibiya section of Baghdad’s Sadr City, killing at least nine people and wounding 22, officials said.
Another bombing, at a vegetable market in the Tarabya section of Baghdad, killed at least six people and wounded 14.
Earlier Monday in northwestern Baghdad, police say a bomb detonated near an intelligence branch of the Interior Ministry, killing four people — a couple and their two children.
Hospital officials corroborated the casualty figures. All officials spoke anonymously as they are not authorized to brief the media.