ISIS terrorists attack gas works in Baghdad: Suicide bomber kills 11 in Iraq
ISLAMIC State terrorists attacked a gas works in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 11 people.
ISIS have claimed responsibility for a terror attack in Baghdad
A suicide car bomb went off at the entrance of the facility in Taji, allowing another vehicle carrying at least six attackers with explosive vests to enter, police sources said. Twenty-one people were wounded.
The attack forced two power stations supplied by the plant to suspend electricity production.
The militant group said in a statement that four fighters had shot the guards at the plant which it said was being used by the Iraqi army.
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.
Eleven were killed in the attack
Iraq’s oil ministry said the attack had not disrupted the plant’s production of gas for cooking and electricity production.
But the ministry said two nearby power stations had halted operations due to a cut in gas supplies from the Taji plant.
It was not clear how long it would take to restore flow to the power stations.
Three of the facility’s gas storages were set alight
A video on Al Hadath TV showed a fireball surging from the plant.
Dozens of police and army vehicles rushed to the site, where shooting lasted for about an hour, according to witnesses.
A US-led coalition backing the Iraqi government in its fight against ISIS has been training army forces for months at a military base located in Taji.
Separate explosions in Baghdad’s southern outskirts yesterday left three people dead and 12 wounded, police sources said.