July 24, 2021 Meet the Middle East

Iraq’s prime minister announces arrests over Baghdad suicide bombing

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi announced Saturday that members of a “terrorist cell” suspected of being behind a Baghdad suicide bombing that killed more than 30 people five days ago have been arrested.“We have arrested all the members of the cowardly terrorist cell that planned and perpetrated the attack on Al-Woheilat market” in Sadr City, a Shia suburb in the capital, “and they will be put before a judge today,” Kadhemi said on Twitter.For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Last Monday, a suicide bomber killed more than 35 people and wounded dozens in a crowded market in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, on the eve of the Eid al-Adha festival.Read more:Iraq military base hosting US troops attacked by drone: CoalitionUS set to formalize readjustment of troop role in IraqIraqi police arrest several people behind murder of activist Hisham al-Hashemi: PM
Source: Al Arabiya
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