Suicide bomber kills at least 20 in Iraq's Diyala

2/29/2016 6:49:35 PM

(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) >At least 20 people were killed Monday by a suicide bombing in eastern Iraq according to local security sources.

According to initial estimates the attack -- which targeted a funeral being held at a mosque in the town of Muqdadiyah in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province -- also left at least 30 people injured local sources said.

Senior members of the Hashd al-Shaabi ("Popular Mobilization Forces") an umbrella of Iraqi Shia militiagroupswere reportedly among the attack’s victims.

While no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack it came only one day after the Daesh terrorist group carried out a twin bombing inBaghdad’s predominantly-Shia Sadr City district that killed at least 65 people.

On the same day Daesh terrorists carried out an attack in the city of Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad that left 12Iraqi troops dead.

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