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3 civilians wounded in northern Baghdad market blast

 3 civilians wounded in northern Baghdad market blast

A man stands at the site of a suicide bomb attack at Nakheel Mall across from the oil ministry, in Baghdad, in Iraq September 10, 2016. (Reuters)

A man stands at the site of a suicide bomb attack at Nakheel Mall across from the oil ministry, in Baghdad, in Iraq September 10, 2016. (Reuters)
A man stands at the site of a suicide bomb attack at Nakheel Mall across from the oil ministry, in Baghdad, in Iraq September 10, 2016. (Reuters)
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three civilians were wounded on Saturday when a bomb blast rocked an area near a popular market in northern Baghdad.

Security sources told Alsumaria News that the bomb was planted at the side of a road in al-Shaab district, wounding three civilians.

Violence surged in Iraq with the emergence of Islamic State militants who took over large areas of the country in 2014. Baghdad has been witnessing almost daily bombings targeting civilians and security personnel. Nobody has claimed responsibility yet for the Saturday bombings, but IS militants have said they were responsible for several bloody explosions that hit the capital in the past weeks, bringing the governorate municipal and security officials under critics’ fire.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) said violence in the country left 19000 casualties in nine months of 2016.

Observers believe Islamic State have begun to escalate attacks outside the city of Mosul, where the group has been losing ground and personnel since October, so as to relieve pressure by government forces on that front and to divert attention from group losses.

While losing Mosul could be the severest blow to the group’s existence in Iraq, some observers believe attacks outside the province prove that the extremist group can still pose a security threat.

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