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Suicide bombers blew up near the oil fields.

At checkpoints on the highway near oil fields in the southern province of Iraq exploded two cars with the suicide bombers, there are victims.

About it reports Reuters with reference to police.

“A suicide bomber in car blew himself up at a checkpoint on a highway near oil fields in the southern Iraqi province of Basra”, – stated in the message.

The explosion at a checkpoint in the Rumaila killed several people, including two soldiers and a civilian.

The second explosion occurred in the first kilometer from the checkpoint, “al-Sadr”, said the representative of the Ministry of internal Affairs.

The representative of the oil company assured that mining explosions were not injured, but protection of the oil facilities are in the highest degree of readiness .