28 killed in attack on Shi'ite political rally in Iraq
 

* Three bombs explode at stadium * Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility * Shi'ite leader's speech de**unced Sunni radicals (Adds claim of responsibility) By Raheem Salman BAGHDAD, April 25 (Reuters) - A ****** of explosions killed 28 people and wounded more than 40 at a Shi'ite political organisation's rally in Iraq on Friday, police and medical sources said. The militant group Asaib Ahl Haq (League of the Righteous) was presenting its candidates for elections on April 30 at the rally in eastern Baghdad. Al Qaeda offshoot the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on the Internet. The group said it had carried out the bombings in response to "murder, torture and displacement" of Sunnis by Shi'ite militias which "massacred children and women".

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