IRAQ FOOTBALL STADIUM HIT BY DEADLY SUICIDE BOMBING
Baku, May 15 (AZERTAC). A suicide bombing at a football stadium in northern Iraq has killed 10 people and injured 120 others, police say.
An attacker detonated explosives hidden inside a vehicle at the entrance to the stadium in Tal Afar, a mainly Shia Turkmen town west of Mosul.
Witnesses said the blast was followed by at least one other. Some said up to three suicide bombers were involved.
Earlier, the militant umbrella group, the Islamic State of Iraq, warned Shias of “dark days soaked with blood”.
“What is happening to you nowadays is just a drizzle,” said Al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman, the group`s so-called minister of war.
Abu Suleiman succeeded Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq who was killed along with ISI leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in a joint operation by US and Iraq forces in April.
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