Police in Baghdad said on Tuesday that not less than 16 people were killed and 35 wounded in a triple blast Monday evening in Iraq’s Diyala province.
The police said the death toll was expected to rise.
The police said the death toll was expected to rise.
It said three explosive devices set off near a football pitch in Baquba.
Police authorities said ambulances rushed the injured to the nearest hospitals, while the site of the explosion was cordoned off.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Police authorities said ambulances rushed the injured to the nearest hospitals, while the site of the explosion was cordoned off.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Atheel al’Najafi, Nineveh Provincial Governor, said earlier that Islamic State militants have executed no fewer than 120 people and captured 350 others in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
“With the people’s rising rejection of the Islamic State (IS) group, executions and detentions are mounting in different parts of the city”, the governor said.
Al-Najafi said the victims, some of whom had been held hostage by the Islamic State for months in Mosul, capital of Nineveh province, were killed by gunshots to the head.
Al-Najafi said the victims, some of whom had been held hostage by the Islamic State for months in Mosul, capital of Nineveh province, were killed by gunshots to the head.
He said those abducted by IS forces were mainly police officers, current and former army officials, electoral commission employees, former parliamentary candidates and religious scholars.
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