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The attack is said to have taken place at a funeral and a nearby security checkpoint, with initial reports saying eight people had died
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Since then, the death toll has been revised to 13, and then 17, with dozens more injured
At least 17 people, including some policemen, have been killed in an attack carried out by the Islamic State group, or Daesh, in the Salahudin province of Iraq on Friday, July 30, said local reports on Saturday.
The attack is said to have taken place at a funeral and a nearby security checkpoint, with initial reports saying eight people had died.
Since then, the death toll has been revised to 13, and then 17, with dozens more injured. The toll may apparently rise, given the condition of the injured.
The attack is said to have taken place in the village of Albu Jily near the town of Yathrib, around 80 km north of Baghdad.
The reports quoted Salahudin Provincial Governor Ammar al-Jaber as saying that he condemned the attack.
He also reportedly stressed that the security forces would launch an investigation into the incident.
This comes around two weeks after 30 people were killed by another Daesh attack in the country.
Iraq in 2017 declared that it had defeated Daesh, which had for a few years occupied large tracts of both Iraq and Syria, but is now reduced to small pockets and operates using sleeper cells.