The girl, a year seven student from Thomastown in Melbourne, was in the Iraqi capital with her family to visit her sick grandfather. The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, identified her as Zynab Al Harbiya, and said the Australian government was providing consular support to her family in Baghdad. She was reportedly at the counter of al-Faqma ice-cream parlour when a suicide car bomb exploded outside just before midnight local time, killing 17 people and wounding up to 32. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Al-Faqma ice-cream shop in Baghdad, where 17 people who died in an Isis car bomb. In separate online statements, Islamic State claimed responsibility for the two attacks, saying its suicide bombers targeted gatherings of Shias.

Source: The Guardian May 30, 2017 22:17 UTC