Death toll rises to 120 in Islamic State suicide bombing in Iraq
The death toll from a massive Islamic State suicide bombing northeast of Baghdad rose to 120 on Saturday in what has become the group’s deadliest single terrorist attack in Iraq. The suicide bomber injured at least 140 others when he detonated a small tanker truck laden with heavy explosives Friday evening in a crowded shopping district […]Matt Bradley and Ali A. Nabhan report for the Wall Street Journal:
The death toll from a massive Islamic State suicide bombing northeast of Baghdad rose to 120 on Saturday in what has become the group’s deadliest single terrorist attack in Iraq. The suicide bomber injured at least 140 others when he detonated a small tanker truck laden with heavy explosives Friday evening in a crowded shopping district of Khan Bani Saad, a mostly Shiite town in Diyala province about 20 miles northeast of Iraq’s capital, said Muthana al-Tamimi, the governor of the province.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombing in a message that was circulated by Twitter users known to be associated with the extremist insurgent group, calling it a revenge operation for the “massacres of Sunnis” in the northern Iraqi town of Hawija.
