Ten killed in ISIS bombings at Baghdad five-star hotels

Islamic State claimed responsibility Friday for bombings outside two heavily fortified five-star hotels in the Iraqi capital that killed 10 people. A suicide bomber called Abu Qutaiba was said to have parked a car outside the Ishtar hotel in central Baghdad late on Thursday before driving another vehicle laden with 230 kg of explosives to the nearby Babylon hotel. He detonated himself in the second car at the same time as the first car bomb exploded.
 

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