BABEL / Aswat al-Iraq: At least 25 persons were killed or wounded in a double explosion in central Hilla on Thursday.

 

“Two bombs went off in front of the Hilla Chamber of Commerce in Beb al-Mashhad region, central Hilla, killed and wounding 25,” the interior ministry said in a statement.

 

“Security forces cordoned off the whole region and carried the victims to the morgues.”

 

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