Civilian wounded in IED blast near Baghdad Airport
Muthanna Airport street, Baghdad.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A civilian was wounded when an IED blast rocked a street leading to Al-Muthana Airport in central Baghdad, Alsumaria News reported.
The civilian was “accidentally passing by at the moment of the explosion,” the network said, adding that the man was transferred to a nearby hospital.
Since the US invasion in 2003, Baghdad has occasionally witnessed booby-trapped cars explosions, suicide bombings and IED explosions, besides attacks targeting civilians and security workers, leading to the death and injury of scores of people most of the time.
The wave of violence increased when Islamic State militant extremists took over large parts of the country in 2014.
Minutes earlier before the explosion, an employee at the Ministry of Education was killed by gunfire from unknown attackers outside his residence at al-Sadr city, east of Baghdad. Reasons for the assault are still to be investigated.