At least 50 people killed near Baghdad gas station

  • 12/15/2022
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BAGHDAD, Aug 01, SPA -- A fuel tanker exploded Wednesday near a gas station in western Baghdad, killing at least 50 people and wounding 60, police said. The blast occurred around 2 p.m. in Mansour, a primarily Sunni neighborhood on the western side of the Iraqi capital. Two police officers, both speaking on condition ofanonymity out of security concerns, said the explosion was the work of a suicide attacker, the Associated Press reported.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/471995

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