By Ibrahim Saleh
BAGHDAD (AA) – Eleven people were killed and at least 23 others injured on Sunday when two car bombs exploded in the city of Al-Samawah in Iraq’s southern Muthanna province, according to a local police source.
Major Baqer al-Sayed told Anadolu Agency that the attack had targeted a group of civilians standing in a main car park in the city’s downtown district.
Unlike other parts of violence-hit Iraq, Al-Samawah — a Shia-majority city located some 250 kilometers south of Baghdad — rarely witnesses acts of terrorism.
Sunday’s car-bomb attack comes one day after a suicide blast in Baghdad that targeted a group of Shia pilgrims — for which the Daesh terrorist group later claimed responsibility — left 15 people dead.
