Politics and Culture

Baghdad, December 14: Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani says that 13 people arrested over connection to deadly bombings in Baghdad last August are to face justice and be put to death.

“We have completed 80 percent of the investigation over the bombings against the ministries of finance and foreign affairs,” Bolani told lawmakers during a grilling session in parliament on Sunday in the aftermath of the multiple coordinated bombings on December 8, which killed 127 people and injured over 450 others.

“The court was convinced by the evidence the Ministry of the Interior brought, and the 13 terrorists implicated will be executed,” Bolani stated.

More than 100 civilians lost their lives on August 19 when a wave of explosions ripped through Baghdad's civilian and diplomatic areas close to government buildings including the finance and foreign ministries.

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