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Officials: More than 80 dead in IS-claimed Iraq attack
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Officials: More than 80 dead in IS-claimed Iraq attack

published : 15 Sep 2017 at 17:25

writer: Associated Press

Iraqi police officers inspect the remains of a car used in a bomb attack in Nasiriyah city, about 350 km south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday. (EPA photo)
Iraqi police officers inspect the remains of a car used in a bomb attack in Nasiriyah city, about 350 km south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday. (EPA photo)

BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials say the death toll has risen to more than 80 killed in an Islamic State group-claimed attack in southern Iraq targeting a restaurant frequented by Shiite Muslim pilgrims.

Provincial Gov Yahya al-Nassiri said Friday that 84 people were killed and 93 people were injured in the attack in Nasiriyah, in Iraq's southern Thi Qar province Thursday evening. Among them, seven Iranians were killed and 16 wounded.

Mr Al-Nassiri says the province's director of intelligence was removed and the Interior Ministry called for him to be investigated.

The attack began as a shooting at a checkpoint and restaurant along the main road that connects the province to Baghdad, followed by two suicide bombers, one driving an explosives-laden car. IS fighters often turn to large-scale insurgent attacks following territorial losses.

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