IS Claims Attack Targeting Iraqi Shopping Mall


January 11, 2016

Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in Iraq that have left dozens of civilians dead and at least 50 people injured.

A spokesperson for the country’s interior ministry, Brigadier General Saad Maan, told Sky News 11 people were killed and 25 injured in a coordinated attack in Baghdad.

Other reports said at least 18 people died.

Two suicide bombers and a car bomb targeted a busy street near the Jawahara Mall, a popular shopping centre in the mainly Shia east of the capital.

 

 

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