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WORLD NEWS 9
Saturday 30 May 2015
Death toll from Baghdad hotel bombings rises to 15
SAMEER N. YACOUB and destroyed several cars. Civilians and security forces inspect the aftermath of a car bomb the infiltration on the negli-
Associated Press Baghdad’s top hotels are attack in the parking lot of Babylon hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, gence of the hotel guards
BAGHDAD (AP) — The usually crowded on Thurs- Friday, May 29, 2015. Two separate car bombs inside parking and the weak security
death toll from car bombs day nights with people at- lots of two downtown hotels have killed and wounded civilians measures adopted by po-
that targeted two promi- tending weddings and par- late Thursday, authorities said. lice in Baghdad.
nent hotels in Baghdad ties. The ability of extremists Sameer al-Shwaili, a spokes-
a day earlier rose to 15 to target heavily secured (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) man for government’s Anti-
people, with another 42 buildings in the heart of Terrorism Apparatus, said
wounded, Iraqi officials said the capital brutally under- wounding 10. third car bomb near the that more attacks on Bagh-
Friday, as the Islamic State scored the city’s lingering Police said the two hotel Babil Hotel was discovered dad are expected as mili-
group claimed responsibil- vulnerability. The IS group bombs were detonated by and defused early Friday. tary operations continue in
ity for the attack. has been able to carry remote control and that a A police officer blamed an effort to drive out IS mili-
Two separate car bombs out regular attacks in and tants from the Sunni-major-
went off late Thursday in around Baghdad, mainly ity provinces of Anbar and
the parking lots of the Cris- targeting the security forc- Salahuddin.
tal, formerly Sheraton, and es and the country’s Shiite “The situation is directly re-
Babil hotels. Officials initially majority, while battling Iraqi lated to operations in An-
said 10 people were killed forces on multiple fronts bar, and operations in Tikrit.
and 27 wounded, but the elsewhere in the country. Iraq is in a state of war and
casualty figures rose over- Police and hospital officials what happened in Bagh-
night. said a roadside bomb hit a dad is a product of that
The two explosions shat- commuter bus in eastern war,” al-Shwaili told The
tered the windows of the Baghdad on Friday, kill- Associated Press in a tele-
recently renovated hotels ing three passengers and phone interview.q
Saturday 30 May 2015
Death toll from Baghdad hotel bombings rises to 15
SAMEER N. YACOUB and destroyed several cars. Civilians and security forces inspect the aftermath of a car bomb the infiltration on the negli-
Associated Press Baghdad’s top hotels are attack in the parking lot of Babylon hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, gence of the hotel guards
BAGHDAD (AP) — The usually crowded on Thurs- Friday, May 29, 2015. Two separate car bombs inside parking and the weak security
death toll from car bombs day nights with people at- lots of two downtown hotels have killed and wounded civilians measures adopted by po-
that targeted two promi- tending weddings and par- late Thursday, authorities said. lice in Baghdad.
nent hotels in Baghdad ties. The ability of extremists Sameer al-Shwaili, a spokes-
a day earlier rose to 15 to target heavily secured (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) man for government’s Anti-
people, with another 42 buildings in the heart of Terrorism Apparatus, said
wounded, Iraqi officials said the capital brutally under- wounding 10. third car bomb near the that more attacks on Bagh-
Friday, as the Islamic State scored the city’s lingering Police said the two hotel Babil Hotel was discovered dad are expected as mili-
group claimed responsibil- vulnerability. The IS group bombs were detonated by and defused early Friday. tary operations continue in
ity for the attack. has been able to carry remote control and that a A police officer blamed an effort to drive out IS mili-
Two separate car bombs out regular attacks in and tants from the Sunni-major-
went off late Thursday in around Baghdad, mainly ity provinces of Anbar and
the parking lots of the Cris- targeting the security forc- Salahuddin.
tal, formerly Sheraton, and es and the country’s Shiite “The situation is directly re-
Babil hotels. Officials initially majority, while battling Iraqi lated to operations in An-
said 10 people were killed forces on multiple fronts bar, and operations in Tikrit.
and 27 wounded, but the elsewhere in the country. Iraq is in a state of war and
casualty figures rose over- Police and hospital officials what happened in Bagh-
night. said a roadside bomb hit a dad is a product of that
The two explosions shat- commuter bus in eastern war,” al-Shwaili told The
tered the windows of the Baghdad on Friday, kill- Associated Press in a tele-
recently renovated hotels ing three passengers and phone interview.q
