ICC Note:

Yet another suicide bomb has taken the lives of innocent people in Iraq. Reports state that this attack killed at least 15 people and injured over 40 people. While no group has yet claimed responsibility for this attack, ISIS has recently carried out similar attacks. It is believed that these continued attacks are in retaliation of Iraqi forces ongoing attempt to recapture the city of Mosul. If these attacks persist, displaced Christians will have even less to return home to.

3/31/2017 Iraq (BBC) – At least 15 people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, officials say.

They say more than 40 people were injured when the bomber detonated the vehicle – an oil tanker laden with explosives – at the checkpoint in the south of the capital.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.

So-called Islamic State has recently carried out similar attacks in Iraq.

Wednesday’s attack comes as Iraq forces are continuing a major offensive to recapture the city of Mosul – the last IS urban stronghold in the country.

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