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BAGHDAD / Reuters
Two attackers shot several civilians in
the Nahrawan area southeast of Baghdad before one blew himself up and the other was killed by security forces, the Iraqi
Interior Ministry said, without providing official casualty figures.
Local media reported at least 17 people were killed and 28 wounded.
IS claimed responsibility for the att-
ack, described by an interior ministry spokesman as “a terrorist attack by
two terrorist suicide attackers who fired indiscriminately on the citizens in the Nahrawan area.â€
The militant group’s Amaq news agency said it had killed 35 members of one of the Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces.
Iraqi security officials say the militant group is likely to wage an insurgency after its self-proclaimed caliphate collapsed and its militants were dislodged from
territories they held across a swathe of Iraq and Syria.