Alwaght- At least 15 people have been killed and more than 50 others wounded on Friday in a series of bomb explosions and a rocket attack in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.
Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said five people lost their lives and 15 others sustained injuries when three rockets landed onto a weapons storage facility in eastern Baghdad on Friday, Press TV reported.
A bomb struck a shopping street in the capital's western neighborhood of Ghazaliya, killing two civilians and injuring eight others.
Elsewhere in western Baghdad, three civilians were killed and eight others injured when a bomb blast ripped through a commercial district.
Additionally, two bomb attacks on fruit and vegetable markets across Baghdad killed five people and wounded 20 others.
No individual or group has so far claimed responsibility, but ISIS terrorist group has carried out scores of similar attacks across Iraq, particularly in the capital city of Baghdad.
Wave of terrorist attacks has recently targeted Baghdad, representing a shift in strategy of ISIS amid recent losses by the terrorist group in Anbar province, which borders Baghdad.
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq says a total of 691 Iraqis were killed and another 1,016 wounded in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in August.
According to the UN mission, the number of civilian fatalities stood at 473. Violence also claimed the lives of 218 members of the Iraqi security forces. A great portion of last month's fatalities was recorded in Baghdad, where 231 civilians were killed.
Dislodged from its stronghold Fallujah and under pressure on the front lines, ISIS terrorists have stepped up suicide bombings in populated areas they don’t control.
The Iraqi army and volunteer fighters from the Popular Mobilization Forces have been engaged in joint operations to retake last ISIS stronghold in Iraq, Mosul.
