Iraqi member of parliament killed in car bomb blast in western Baghdad

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Iraqi member of parliament killed in car bomb blast in western Baghdad
A Shi'ite Muslim member of Iraq's parliament was killed in a car bomb attack at a checkpoint entrance to the Shi'ite neighborhood of Kadhimiya in Baghdad on Tuesday, according to a parliamentary media official and police.     

Police and medics said Ahmed Al-Khafaji, also a member of the Shi'ite Badr political party, was among 25 people killed in the blast on the edge of Kadhimiya, home to the Shi'ite shrine of Imam Kahdim. Khafaji is also a former deputy interior minister, his party said.        

The death toll was earlier reported to be 18. The parliamentary media official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Khafaji was in the area to visit the Imam Kadhim shrine.

The blast happened in the late afternoon as cars lined up to enter the affluent neighborhood, home to one of the holiest shrines in Shi'ite Islam. Among the dead were five police.        

In a separate incident, a roadside bomb blew up on a busy street in al-Qahira district of northern Baghdad, killing three passersby, police and medical officials said.         

Al-Qahira is a mixed neighborhood and it was not clear who was targeted in the blast.        

The attack in Kadhimiya marked the third straight day of bombings targeting the district and other mostly Shi'ite neighborhoods in the Iraqi capital and its outskirts. The blasts have killed at least 77 people since Sunday.          

Islamic State, a rigidly conservative Sunni Muslim group, has claimed responsibility for most of the attacks on Shi'ite neighborhoods since Sunday as it looks to sow terror within the capital.       

The group has seized large sections of northern and western Iraq as it seeks to establish an Islamic Empire across the borders of Iraq and Syria.          


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