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Baghdad blasts kill 1 person, wound 5 others

 Baghdad blasts kill 1 person, wound 5 others

A bomb blast in Baghdad.

Baghdad blast (representational photo).
Baghdad blast (representational photo).

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) One civilian was killed and five others were wounded in two IED blasts that ripped passenger buses east and north of Baghdad, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

“A sticky bomb fitted underneath a KIA passenger bus exploded this morning as it passed through the Army Canal road east of the city, killing a civilian passenger and wounding three others,” read the statement by the ministry’s Baghdad Operations.

Another bomb exploded in a passenger bus while it moved through Jisr al-Bonouk street in al-Qahera, north of Baghdad, said the ministry.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) said recently that violence during November claimed the lives of 926 civilians and wounded 930 people.

Violence surged across Iraq as Islamic State militants captured several Iraqi cities in 2014, and continues even as the group is sustaining defeats during a current wide-scale campaign by Iraqi forces and tribal militias.

Observers believe ISIS have begun to target several areas across Iraq to divert security focus on Mosul, where the group fights to defend its last bastion in Iraq under the brunt of continuous advancements by Iraqi government and popular troops.

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