Al Jazeera News :
ISIL has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Iraq that has claimed the lives of at least 60 people.
The responsibility for Sunday’s attack was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group in a posting on the website of the sympathetic Amaq news agency.
A suicide bomber driving a truck attacked a security checkpoint on a strategic highway near Hilla, 90km south of Baghdad. Another 70 people were wounded in the blast near the city of Hilla, police officials said.
“A martyr’s operation with a truck bomb hit the Babylon Ruins checkpoint at the entrance of the city of Hilla, killing and wounding dozens,” the ISIL statement on Amaq said.
Hilla is the capital of Babylon province, a predominantly Shia region with some Sunni presence.
Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf, reporting from Baghdad, said: “It was apparently a suicide bombing that occurred at a checkpoint that is usually manned by Iraq soldiers and federal police forces. A long line of cars along that key road were also caught in the blast.”
ISIL has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Iraq that has claimed the lives of at least 60 people.
The responsibility for Sunday’s attack was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group in a posting on the website of the sympathetic Amaq news agency.
A suicide bomber driving a truck attacked a security checkpoint on a strategic highway near Hilla, 90km south of Baghdad. Another 70 people were wounded in the blast near the city of Hilla, police officials said.
“A martyr’s operation with a truck bomb hit the Babylon Ruins checkpoint at the entrance of the city of Hilla, killing and wounding dozens,” the ISIL statement on Amaq said.
Hilla is the capital of Babylon province, a predominantly Shia region with some Sunni presence.
Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf, reporting from Baghdad, said: “It was apparently a suicide bombing that occurred at a checkpoint that is usually manned by Iraq soldiers and federal police forces. A long line of cars along that key road were also caught in the blast.”
