Baghdad (IINA) – At least 13 people were killed and more than 30 others wounded in two overnight bomb blasts outside a shopping mall in the center of Iraqi capital Baghdad, security and medical officials said on Saturday.
The blasts were the latest in a series of deadly attacks at Baghdad shopping centres this year, including one that killed more than 300 people in early July, AFP reported.
In the latest attack, one explosion came from a parked car and the other was caused by an explosives-laden vehicle driven by a suicide bomber outside Nakheel Mall on Palestine Street in the city Center, a police colonel said.
The blasts, which hit just before midnight Friday, shattered windows at the multi-storey mall and damaged a fence surrounding it. Interior ministry spokesman Saad Maan said there were no casualties inside.
Nakheel Mall opened last year and shops were likely to have remained open late ahead of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha which begins on Monday.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the twin bombings, but the Islamic State terrorist group has said it carried out other attacks at Baghdad shopping centres this year as well as almost all suicide bombings in the capital.
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