Woman suicide bomber kills at least 30 in Iraqi market
Source: Reuters
A woman suicide bomber killed at least 31 people and wounded 35 in a crowded market in the town of Musayab, 80 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, on Friday, security sources said.
Islamic State claimed the attack, 30 km east of the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala, as well as a suicide attack at a bus station in central Kerbala around the same time. It did not identify either bomber, in a statement on its Amaq news agency.
Security sources said four people were wounded in the Kerbala bombing, and one security officer said the bomber was also a woman and had hidden the bomb under her full-body veil.
The hardline Sunni Muslim insurgents are on the brink of losing Mosul, their de-facto capital in Iraq, to a U.S.-backed Iraqi offensive launched in October.
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Many of us were against ever getting involved in Iraq. That idiotic decision is going to haunt us for generations just like Reagan's brilliance in giving weapons and training to Afghani fighters and Nixon opening up trade relations with China.
