Iraqi council votes to demolish homes of convicted militants

In the town of Youssifiyah, 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Baghdad, a bomb explosion in a commercial area killed at least three shoppers and wounded nine others, another police officer said.

Reacting after the deadliest attack so far this year, Abadi also ordered a new investigation into “corrupt deals” to buy ADE 651 devices developed as lost golf balls finders and sold to Iraq and other nations as hand-held bomb detectors.

Two medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to the media.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but ISIS carries out frequent suicide bombings in Iraq. But the extremists have continued to carry out near-daily bombings in and around Baghdad, as well as complex attacks in other countries.

Approved by authorities in Hillah, the capital of Babil province, the decision applies to “terrorists” who have exhausted all possibilities of appealing against their convictions, council member Hassan Fadaam said on Wednesday.

After a sweeping expansion in Iraq in 2014, the ultra-hardline Sunni group has been losing territory since past year to US-backed Iraqi government forces and Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia militias.

“We have grown frustrated with the central government’s efforts to maintain security and execute convicted militants”, Fadamm said.

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