BAGHDAD
— A group of Sunni militants attending a suicide bombing training class
at a camp north of Baghdad were killed on Monday when their commander
unwittingly conducted a demonstration with a belt that was packed with
explosives, army and police officials said.
The
militants belonged to a group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria, or ISIS, which is fighting the Shiite-dominated army of the Iraqi
government, mostly in Anbar Province. But they are also linked to bomb
attacks elsewhere and other fighting that has thrown Iraq deeper into
sectarian violence.
Twenty-two
ISIS members were killed, and 15 were wounded, in the explosion at the
camp, which is in a farming area in the northeastern province of Samara,
according to the police and army officials. Stores of other explosive
devices and heavy weapons were also kept there, the officials said.
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