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'Bombing' hits Iraq military base: security sources

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People, holding banners and Palestinian flags, gather in front of the Abu Hanifa an-Numan Mosque to protest against the bombing of Gaza's Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq on October 18, 2023. [AFP Photo]

Several people were wounded in a "bombing" overnight on an Iraqi military base housing a coalition of pro-Iranian armed groups, two security sources said early Saturday.

The explosion hit the Calso military base in Babylon province south of Baghdad, where Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, or Hashed al-Shaabi, is stationed, according to an interior ministry source and a military official.

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