Suicide bomber kills at least 31 in crowded Iraqi market

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Suicide bomber kills at least 31 in crowded Iraqi market

 

A firefighter hoses down a street after a suicide bomb attack in the city of Kerbala, Iraq June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer

 

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A woman suicide bomber killed at least 31 people and wounded 35 in a crowded market in the town of Musayab, 80 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, on Friday, security sources said.

 

Islamic State claimed the attack, as well as one at the main bus station in the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala, just west of Musayab, which killed three people and wounded 15.

 

A security officer said the bomber in Musayab was a woman and had hidden the bomb under her full-body veil.

Islamic State's statements identified both bombers as men.

 

The hardline Sunni Muslim insurgents declared a self-styled "caliphate" over parts of Syria and Iraq three years ago but are now on the brink of losing Mosul, their de-facto capital in Iraq, to a U.S.-backed Iraqi offensive launched in October.

 

They are also on the back foot in Syria, retreating in the face of a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led military coalition attacking Raqqa, Islamic State's urban redoubt there.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-06-10

[Stargeezr]

I guess this woman wanted to go out with a bang. RIP to the poor innocent people that she

killed, and I bet she will go straight to Hell.  Not to Heaven, as she and her fellow type of people

think that is where they are headed.

Geezer