A statement from Iraq’s military said a car bomb blast has killed at least one person and injured more than a dozen in the Iraqi town of al-Qaim on the Syrian border on Friday.
The military said one person was killed, and 16 people were injured. A local senior police source put the number killed at three, with 23 injured. The military and the police said four members of the security forces were among those injured.
Video footage showed the aftermath of the blast, in which firefighters battled a burning building and multiple vehicles were destroyed or damaged at the scene.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in al-Qaim, which went off in the middle of a busy market on Friday morning. It was described by the military in its statement as a terrorist attack.