More than 80 people are dead after IS shootings and suicide bombings in Iraq
Nasiriyah — Gunmen and suicide bombers killed at least 84 people in southern Iraq on Thursday, in the deadliest attack by Islamic State (IS) since it lost second city Mosul, according to a new toll released on Friday. Many of the dead in the attack near the city of Nasiriyah were Shiite Muslim pilgrims, some of them Iranian, officials said. "The death toll has risen to 84 after the discovery of 10 more bodies at the scene of the attack," said Jassem al-Khalidi, health director for Dhiqar province, which has largely been spared the violence that has plagued northern and central Iraq. "Another 93 people were wounded, many of them seriously," Khalidi said. The assailants struck at midday, opening fire on a restaurant before getting into a car and blowing themselves up at a nearby security checkpoint, officials said. They left a trail of destruction, with charred bodies scattered on the ground near the burnt-out wrecks of cars, buses and trucks, a correspondent reported. The attack was ...
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