DIYALA, (AA): At least 40 people were killed Monday by a suicide bombing in eastern Iraq, according to local security sources.
According to initial estimates, the attack — which targeted a funeral being held at a mosque in the town of Muqdadiyah in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province — also left at least 58 people injured, local sources said.
Senior members of the Hashd al-Shaabi (“Popular Mobilization Forces”), an umbrella of Iraqi Shia Muslim militia groups, were reportedly among the attack’s victims.
Islamic State [Daesh] claimed responsibility for the blast, according to a statement posted on the SITE monitoring group’s Twitter account.
The bombing of the funeral came only one day after the Daesh terrorist group carried out a twin bombing in Baghdad’s predominantly-Shia Sadr City district that killed at least 65 people.
On the same day, Daesh terrorists carried out an attack in the city of Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad that left 12 Iraqi troops dead.
Author Hale Türkeş
Additional reporting by The Muslim News
[Photo: Explosion after multiple suicide bombing attack in Al-Jawhara Market in Al-Jadeeda neighbourhood of Baghdad on 11 Jan 2016 Photographer: Ali Mohammed/AA]