World Deadly ISIL Attacks Kill Scores in Iraq

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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS) launched a coordinated assault on a government-run natural gas plant in Baghdad's northern outskirts that killed at least 14 people, while a string of other bomb attacks in or close to the capital killed 15 others, according to a report filed by ALJAZEERA.
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Sunday's attack on the gas plant started at dawn with a suicide car bomber hitting the facility's main gate in the town of Taji, about 20 kilometers north of Baghdad. Then several suicide bombers and fighters broke into the plant and clashed with the security forces, an official said, adding that 27 troops were wounded.

The armed group, on the other hand, said in an online statement that four fighters with machine guns had killed the guards at the plant which it said the Iraqi army was using as a headquarters. When reinforcements arrived, they set off a parked car bomb before clashing with the security forces and detonating their suicide vests.

A spokesman for Baghdad Operations Command said three of the facility's gas storages were set alight before security forces were able to bring the situation under control.

Source: Al-Jazeera
 
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