Huge Bomb Attack Thwarted In Iraq’s Diyala
MEP: The Iraqi forces have frustrated a massive terrorist bombing attack on a shrine in southern Baghdad and dismantled a Daesh terrorist cell in the country’s eastern province of Diyala, an official said on Wednesday.
According to Iraq’s Joint Operations Command spokesman Yahia Rasoolon, Military intelligence forces managed to seize a booby-trapped vehicle that was prepared to target the visitors of Imam Muhamed al-Jawad (PBUH) shrine in Dawra area in southern Baghdad.
A separate force was able to seize a vehicle heading towards Baghdad and transporting a large amount of munitions and explosives in Diyala, he added.
The Iraqi intelligence also arrested several members of the Takfiri terrorist group during the operation.
