Eight killed in suicide attack south of Baghdad

Eight civilians have been killed and five others wounded in a suicide bomb attack in a town south-west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say. Six suicide bombers entered Ain Tamr from the western province of Anbar early on Monday, but they were confronted by security forces. The Islamic State (IS) said it was behind […]

Eight civilians have been killed and five others wounded in a suicide bomb attack in a town south-west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say.
Six suicide bombers entered Ain Tamr from the western province of Anbar early on Monday, but they were confronted by security forces.
The Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the attack.
In a separate incident, two bomb attacks in the Iraqi city of Falluja have killed at least eight people. The bombers targeted government soldiers at two checkpoints in the centre of the city. The attacks in Falluja are the first since government forces recaptured the city from IS militants in June. On Sunday, IS carried out a series of bombings in and around Baghdad that killed at least 23 people and wounded 70 others.
In the bombing in Ain Tamr on Monday, five of the bombers were shot dead, but the sixth broke into a house where he blew himself up, killing eight civilians.