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Kataib Hezbollah Confirms Baghdad Car Explosion Killed One of Its Leaders

Sputnik News

20240207

DOHA (Sputnik) - Iraq's major militant group Kataib Hezbollah confirmed that a car explosion in Baghdad killed one if its leaders on Wednesday.

"We announce that one of the leaders of Kataib Hezbollah, Abu Baqir al-Saadi, also known as Abu Baqir Diyala, was martyred as a result of a car attack in eastern Baghdad," the group wrote in its Telegram channel.

Earlier in the day, a security source told Sputnik that a car was blown up by a drone, according to preliminary data, and the attack killed three people.

"According to preliminary data, a civilian car was blown up by a drone in the east of Baghdad, killing three and wounding two people," the source said.

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