At least 16 dead in wedding from suicide bomb

Crowd at the suicide bomb scene

In a wedding in Iraq, a suicide bomb was denoted killed at least 16 people. 

According to officials, at least 16 people have been confirmed dead from a suicide bomb detonated in an explosives-laden vehicle at a wedding gathering in a town west of the Iraqi capital on Thursday.

The attack also left not less than 30 people wounded. This is believed to have taken place in Amriyat al-Fallujah, a town in Anbar province 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the capital.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but the Islamic State jihadist group frequently carries out suicide bombings targeting civilians in Iraq.

At least 15 people where killed three days after twin suicide bombings claimed by IS struck Fallujah, a city northwest of Amriyat al-Fallujah, the report came in.

IS overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, but Iraqi forces have since regained much of the territory they lost, and they are now battling to oust the jihadists from Mosul, the last city they hold in the country.

While IS has been pushed back from areas it once held in eastern and central Anbar, the jihadist group still controls several towns in the province’s West.