24 hours and multiple car bombs later, dozens killed in Iraq – PB/TK
Iraq: Dozens killed in wave of suicide car bomb attacks – al Jazeera / May 20 2017
More than 50 people have been killed in a string of suicide car bomb attacks in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, and the southern province of Basra, police have told Al Jazeera.
At least 33 people were killed on Friday in two separate blasts at checkpoints on a highway near oilfields in Basra, according to police.
The first explosion took place at the Rumeila checkpoint, and the second around one kilometre away at another checkpoint called al-Sadra.
Iraq’s South Oil Company said there was no disruption to operations but oil police were put on maximum alert in response to the attack, officials told the Reuters news agency.
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