Nasiriyah, (Iraq): At least 50 people including Iranians were killed on Thursday in twin gun and car bomb attacks near the city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, according to a new toll. Read more

Shortly afterward two suicide bombers, including one driving a car rigged with explosives, blew themselves and the car up at a security checkpoint nearby, Iraqi officials told AFP. Iranian media said that among the victims were Iranian pilgrims.The survivors are being treated at the al-Batha and Nasiriyah hospitals, but due to the nature of some of the injuries the death toll is expected to rise, the director of the city's Health Directorate, Jasim al-Khalidi, told Reuters.Jassem al-Khalidi, a senior health official, told the TV channel that more than 87 people had sustained injuries in the attacks.The majority of casualties are expected to be Iranian pilgrims, provincial governor Yahya al-Nassiri told AP, who were sat inside the restaurant at the time of the first attack.Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for the attacks through it's propaganda wing, the Amaq Agency.Nasiriyah is the capital of Dhi Qar Governorate, which has a large Shiite population. Image copyright nasiriyah.org Image caption The attack has been claimed by so-called Islamic State

At least 60 people have been killed in two attacks in southern Iraq, police and health officials say. "The toll has now reached 50 dead and 87 wounded," Abdel Hussein al-Jabri, deputy health chief for the mainly Shiite province of Dhiqar of which Nasiriyah is the capital, told AFP.
Several members of ISIL stage multiple attacks on the outskirts of Nasiriyah in the southern Dhi Qar Governorate, killing at least 50 people and injuring 87 others.