WEB DESK
At least 20 people were killed and 34 others injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a market in the town of Musayyib, south of Baghdad friday. A source at Musayyib hospital said at least four of the wounded were in very serious condition following the blast.
The attack in Musayyib came hours after another, apparently failed attack in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala, a few kilometres to the southwest. Police sources said both attacks were claimed by the Islamic State IS group.
The bombings in Baghdad came as Iraqi forces fight to retake the last IS-held areas of Mosul, a city that was the IS group’s emblematic stronghold. Iraqi forces are almost eight months into a massive operation to recapture the second city and have already taken back its whole eastern side and much of the west.