At
least 11 Iraqi security personnel have been killed in a quadruple
suicide car bombing near Beiji that was claimed by the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant group.
ISIL, which controls large parts of northern Iraq, said four of its
foreign fighters carried out Saturday's bombings, which targeted Iraqi
army and allied units' positions in the town of Hajjaj, on the road
between Tikrit and Beiji.
Seven soldiers were killed as well as four members of the Popular
Mobilisation force, an umbrella of mostly Shia units and volunteers that
have been heavily involved in the fight against ISIL in Iraq.
At least 27 people were also wounded in the coordinated attack, which
saw one of the four car bombs neutralised before it could reach its
target, a police colonel said.
An army officer said the vehicles used were identical, brand new four
4WD vehicles that looked like an official convoy, the AFP news agency
reported.
Social media accounts sympathetic to ISIL released images purporting
to show the suicide bombers preparing for the attacks, and posing with
vehicles, which matched the description given by the Iraqi officer.
The pictures identify the bombers as Abu Hafs "the Kuwaiti", Abu
Ibrahim "the German", Abu Abdul Aziz "the Palestinian" and Abu Yusuf
"the Briton".
The images were posted with the logo of ISIL's self-declared Salahuddin governorate.
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Pro-ISIL Twitter accounts showed the suicide bombers preparing for the attack |
Source: Al Jazeera And AFP
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