Bomb blast kills, wounds 11 people south of Baghdad
Paramedics transfer the bodies of blast victims. File photo.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior said on Friday, that 11 people had been either killed or injured in a bomb blast that took place south of Baghdad.
According to information shared by the source, “At noon, an explosive device went off near a [shop] in the vicinity of al-Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad, resulting in the death of one person and wounding ten others,” adding that, “A security force rushed to the area of the incident and transferred the injured to a nearby hospital to receive medical treatment and the dead body to the forensic medicine authority, while imposed a security cordon around the area and prevented approaching it.”