ISIS claims blast near US Consulate in Iraq

April 18, 2015 17:46

ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack Friday near the US Consulate in the Kurdish Iraqi city of Irbil, according to several Twitter accounts linked to the terror group.

The US Consulate was the target of the attack, ISIS said.

At least four people were killed and 18 injured, police said.

All U.S. Consulate personnel were safe and accounted for following the explosion, US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said.

Irbil is the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government.

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