Suicide truck bomb kills at least 20 in south Baghdad

YemenExtra

A suicide truck bomb blew up at a checkpoint in the south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 50,iraqi media said.

the bomber detonated his explosives among other vehicles waiting to be searched at the checkpoint, setting some of them on fire,they mention that.

Daesh terrorist, who supported by Saudi, immediately claimed responsibility for attack.

Earlier, Iraqi special forces and police fought Islamic State militants to edge closer to the al-Nuri mosque in western Mosul.