Il bilancio delle vittime dell’esplosione di un’auto-bomba oggi a Baghdad è aumentato a 55. Altre 60 sono rimaste ferite. L’evento è avvenuto nella zona sud della capitale irachena in mattinata. Si ritiene che il responsabile sia l’Isis. Baghdad è stata sconvolta da un’ondata di attacchi mortali nei quartieri principali i primi giorni del 2017, che hanno causato la morte e il ferimento di decine di persone.

The number of people killed by Thursday’s blast of a mine-studded car in the Iraqi capital rose to 55, media reported. Sixty other people sustained injures, Al Jazeera TV channel added. The incident took place in the southern Baghdad earlier in the day. The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, outlawed in Russia and many other countries, reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack. The Iraqi capital suffered from another car bomb explosion on Tuesday, when at least four people were killed. Baghdad was also rocked by a wave of deadly attacks in the city’s major districts in the first days of 2017, when dozens of people had been killed and wounded.