Blast rips through SCIRI Baghdad offices, one dead

By: Hamoud Kufi

BAGHDAD, Iraq: A powerful pre-dawn explosion on Friday hit the Baghdad offices of Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, bringing down half of a one story residential building used as a homeless shelter run by SCIRI and leaving one Iraqi woman dead.

Around a dozen people were reportedly wounded in the blast. One witness said a large explosive device blew up the structure.

There was no immediate comment from the US military on the incident.

Wednesday, a top official of SCIRI Sayyed Muhannad Al-Hakim was martyred in Baghdad.

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