{"id":135796,"date":"2015-07-19T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=135796"},"modified":"2015-07-18T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T17:35:09","slug":"iraqi-bomber-who-killed-120-people-lured-victims-with-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=135796","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi bomber who killed 120 people lured victims with ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph el__leafmedia--\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">A suicide bombing that has killed more than 100 people in eastern Iraq involved an attacker who lured his victims by selling ice at a busy market ahead of a Muslim holiday, local officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The death toll in Friday night&#8217;s attack in Khan Bani Saad rose Saturday to 120, with 160 others injured, said Muthana al Tamimi, the governor of Diyala province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, one of the deadliest in recent months in Iraq, in a post on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The market blast, in a predominantly Shiite area about 35 kilometers (21 miles) north of Baghdad, happened as hundreds were shopping the night before Eid al-Fitr, a joyous Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The bomber was posing as an ice seller, and lured hundreds of shoppers to his truck, which was packed with explosives, according to two local police officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Among the dead were 14 children and 13 women, al Tamimi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Videos posted on social media showed scenes of devastation &#8212; a large fire, and bodies and debris over a wide area. Several multistory buildings appeared to have been heavily damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Daylight revealed a huge crater in the street where the vehicle had exploded<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Source: CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide bombing that has killed more than 100 people in eastern Iraq involved an attacker who lured his victims by selling ice at a busy market ahead of a Muslim holiday, local officials said Saturday. The death toll in Friday night&#8217;s attack in Khan Bani Saad rose Saturday to 120, with 160 others injured, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":135802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-135796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}