2019-12-08 07:39:15

Shafaq News / An official in Baghdad Operations Command revealed on   Sunday, the location of the gathering and the path of the perpetrators of   "al-Sinak massacre", in the center of the capital, Baghdad.

The new Al-Arab Website quoted the official as saying that "the attackers came from Felesteen Street (east of Baghdad), where they gathered in the Baqeyat Allah mosque, which is under the influence of Hezbollah Brigades militia, and they started on short roads towards Al-Nahda then Sheikh Abdul Qadir Al-Kilani Street and stormed the square with bullets."

He stressed that "the sound of bullets was heard in the Green Zone for more than a quarter of an hour, and the army did not receive any order to move to the square."

The massacre was followed by the announcement that Muqtada Al-Sadr's house in Al-Hanana neighborhood, located near the shrine of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib in Old Najaf, was subjected to shelling by a drone that hit the outer wall of the house. Knowing that the headquarters has had extraordinary security measures for years.

According to sources close to al-Sadr, who has been in the Iranian city of Qom for two weeks, the shelling was homemade, alluding to the fact that it is from armed factions that reject the current demonstrations supported by al-Sadr.