In Baghdad, bombs kill 8 more
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At least eight people have been killed in a series of terrorist attacks around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say.
In the deadliest assault, which was carried out on Saturday in the eastern neighborhood of al-Shaab, three people lost their lives and seven others suffered injuries when a sticky bomb inside a microbus exploded.
A second bomb attack in Husseiniya, a suburb of northeastern Baghdad, took two lives. Nine people were also wounded in the roadside bomb attack near a crowded marketplace.
A separate roadside bombing killed two people in the southwestern neighborhood of Arab al-Jabour, while one person died in the al-Mohshahida neighborhood in a roadside bomb explosion that struck a military checkpoint.
On October 5, three separate car bomb attacks across Iraq left nearly 60 people dead and scores injured, two days after two bomb blasts near holy shrines in Baghdad’s Kadhimiyah District killed two dozen people.
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq says a total of 717 Iraqis were killed and another 1,216 wounded in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in September alone.
According to the UN mission, the number of civilian fatalities stood at 537. Violence also claimed the lives of 180 members of the Iraqi security forces. A great portion of the fatalities was recorded in Baghdad, where 257 civilians were killed.
The northern and western parts of Iraq have been plagued by violence ever since the Daesh Takfiri terrorists began their march through the Iraqi territory in June 2014.
Army soldiers and Popular Mobilization Units have paired forces and are seeking to take back militant-held regions in joint operations.
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