16 dead in attack at Iraq funeral of anti-IS fighters

At least 16 people died in a bomb attack Thursday during funerals in a northern Iraqi village for fighters killed by the Islamic State group, the village's mayor said. "Two bombs exploded as the funeral procession was entering the cemetery" in Asdira, near the town of Sharqat, Salaheddin Shaalan told AFP.
Most of 14 people wounded in the blast were in "critical condition", he said. Officials said the injured could not be transported to a hospital outside the village as night had fallen and inhabitants feared being ambushed by IS.
The funeral was for five members of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary units, which fought alongside the army to expel the jihadist group from Iraqi towns last year.