Suicide car bombing kills 11 or more in Western Iraq

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
Sep 12, 2019
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A suicide car bomber has targeted a security checkpoint in western Iraq, killing at least 11 people and wounding 16, officials say. The attacker drove an explosives-rigged vehicle into a checkpoint in the town of Qaim in Anbar Province, Mayor …

A suicide car bomber has targeted a security checkpoint in western Iraq, killing at least 11 people and wounding 16, officials say.

The attacker drove an explosives-rigged vehicle into a checkpoint in the town of Qaim in Anbar Province, Mayor Ahmed al-Mehlawy said on Aug. 29, 2018.

The checkpoint was manned jointly by the army and government-backed Shi'ite militias, he added.


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