Baghdad, August 18: Eight people have been killed in a bombing in Baghdad where a fuel truck was blown up by militants, hours after a deadly attack on an army recruitment center.
The explosion occurred at 9:30 p.m. (0630 GMT) on Tuesday when a bomb attached to a truck loaded with kerosene exploded in the capital’s northeastern neighborhood of Ur, BBC reported.
Another 44 were wounded in the blast.
The truck was reportedly parked near a fuel station that also caught fire.
Two security officers were also gunned down while manning their checkpoint southeast of the northern city of Kirkuk.
But the deadliest incident took place in the early hours of the day when a massive explosion ripped through a crowd of people standing in line at an army recruitment center in the Baab al-Muatham neighborhood in central Baghdad.
The attack left around 60 people dead and at least 100 others wounded.
——-Agencies