(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Three separate bomb attacks killed 12 people and wounded 40 others, including policemen, in central Baghdad Thursday.
Police said the explosions set ablaze several vehicles and damaged building within the vicinity of the incident. Two suicide bomb attacks in the central commercial district of Bab al-Shargi killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others. A third blast in the nearby Bab al-Muadham district killed four people and wounded nine, the sources said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks.
According to a Baghdad based local media report, Popular Mobilization Forces killed five Daesh (ISIS) members that included a sniper in Husaybah, western Iraq.
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