Baghdad(IP): The number of casualties in the explosion of a liquid gas truck in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, reached 20.

Iran PressMiddle East: According to Iran Press, a security source reported that a gas tanker that was parked in a garage near a coffee house in al-Binouk area, east of Baghdad, exploded on Sunday morning for an unknown reason.

The investigation into the cause of this incident is ongoing.

Earlier it was announced that the explosion of a gas tanker in al-Binouk, neighborhood of Baghdad left 15 dead and wounded.

The Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mohammed Shia' Al-Sudani, and the Iraqi Interior Minister, Abdul Amir Al-Shammari, attended the explosion site.

in the meantime; Lieutenant General Ahmed Salim, the Baghdad operation commander, denied the existence of any terrorist motives in this explosion and added that the cause of the explosion was a technical tanker.

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