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Iraq repels IS attack on Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib Twin bombing attacks in Baghdad market kill at least 24
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BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces repelled an attack by Islamic State militants on the capital’s western suburb of Abu Ghraib on Sunday, officials said. BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say back-to-back bombings in an outdoor market in eastern Baghdad have killed at least 24 people.
Three suicide car bombers struck a security force barracks as gunmen opened fire, according to two police officers. At least 12 members of government and paramilitary security forces were killed and 35 wounded, they added. The clashes left a silo on fire, they said. A police officer says a bomb went off Sunday afternoon in the Shiite district of Sadr City. Minutes later, a suicide bomber blew himself up amid the crowd that had gathered at the site of the first bombing, he added.
A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information. He said at least 52 other people were wounded.
The commander of military operations in western Baghdad, Maj. Gen Saad Harbiya, said the situation is “under control” and a local curfew has been imposed. A medical official confirmed the causality figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.
Abu Ghraib, about 18 miles (29 kilometers) from downtown Baghdad, is the location of a prison of the same name where U.S. troops committed notorious abuses against Iraqi detainees following the 2003 invasion.
It is halfway between Baghdad and Fallujah, which is controlled by the IS group. Security forces prevented IS from seizing Abu Ghraib when the extremists swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014.
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Associated Press writers Murtada Faraj and Qassim Abdul-Zahra contributed to this report.
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