Bomb blasts, mortar fire leave 14 dead in Iraqi capital
At least 14 people have been killed by bombings and mortar fire, targeting various public places around the Iraqi capital Baghdad, authorities say.
The most lethal attack took place on Sunday night when a car bomb went off on a busy commercial street in Baghdad, killing 6 and injuring another 13, the Associated Press quoted police officials as saying.
Earlier in the day, three people were killed and eight more wounded by a bomb blast close to a market in the al-Taji district, north of the capital.
According to police, two people were also killed and five more injured as a bomb went off in Baghdad's northeastern suburbs.
Three people were also killed as a civilian residence was hit by a mortar shell in the Sabaa al-Bour village located some 30 kilometers north of Baghdad.
Medical officials have confirmed the casualties.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the bombings, but such attacks are usually blamed on the ISIL Takfiri terrorists.
The northern parts of Iraq have been in chaos since the ISIL started a campaign of terror in early June 2014.
Since then, Iraq’s army has been joined by Kurdish forces, and Shia and Sunni volunteers in operations to drive the ISIL terrorists out of the areas they have seized.
The terrorists are in control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, and have swept through parts of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.
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