news bulletin – answers

Suicide blasts hit Iraqi Eid feasts

correct the statements

1. The army say a teenage boy targeted a mosque. The police
2. People were celebrating in the old part of Baghdad. New Baghdad (a district of the city)
3. The bomb was detonated 18 metres from the mosque. 80 metres
4. A soldier confronted the teenager. A security guard
5. 6 people were injured. were killed
6. It was 8.00 in the evening. the morning
7. The teenager didn’t plan to go inside the mosque. he did but was stopped by the brave guard
8. A second bomb killed 16 people. 10 (16 in total in both bombings)
9. Nobody else was affected. 60 people were injured
10. The previous few days had been peaceful. there have been a series of attacks in the run up to Eid