By Ibrahim Saleh
BAGHDAD (AA): Five people were killed in three separate bomb blasts that shook Iraqi capital Baghdad on Friday, according to a local police source.
Baghdad Police Colonel Salem al-Nuuman told Anadolu Agency that two people were killed — and 11 injured — when a bomb went off near a local market in Baghdad’s southern Al-Yousefiyah district.
Another two people were killed — and another six injured — when a second explosion tore through a market in the city’s southeastern Al-Nahrawan neighborhood, al-Nuuman said.
A fifth person was killed in Baghdad’s western Al-Ghazliya district, the police officer added, by a bomb that had apparently been planted in his vehicle.
While no group has claimed responsibility, the Iraqi authorities typically blame the Daesh terrorist group — which overran much of the country in mid-2014 — for attacks on civilians.
[Photo: 6th Brigade Command of Iraqi army forces move forward to Mahmour region of Mosul after leaving Kirkuk within the operation staging to retake Iraq’s Mosul from Daesh terrorists, in Kirkuk, Iraq on October 11, 2016. Photographer: Muhabiri Hejar Reşit/AA]