HILLA, Iraq: A woman suicide bomber killed at least 31 people and wounded 35 in a crowded market in the town of Musayab, 80-km south of Baghdad, on Friday, security sources said.
Islamic State claimed the attack, 30 km east of the holy city of Kerbala, as well as a suicide attack at a bus station in central Kerbala around the same time.
It did not identify either bomber, in a statement on its Amaq news agency.
Security sources said four people were wounded in the Kerbala bombing, and one security officer said the bomber was also a woman and had hidden the bomb under her full-body veil.
The hardline Muslim insurgents are on the brink of losing Mosul, their de-facto capital in Iraq, to a US-backed Iraqi offensive launched in October.
The group is also on the backfoot in neighbouring Syria, retreating in the face of a US-backed, Kurdish-led military coalition attacking Raqqa, its capital there.
Iranian-backed paramilitaries are taking part in the campaign against Islamic State in Iraq, attacking the group in the border region near Syria. Islamic State declared a self-styled “caliphate” over parts of Syria and Iraq three years ago.
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