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Raid destroys huge IS car bomb plant in Iraq: officials

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Iraqi Shiite fighters stand at the site of a car bomb on March 12, 2015 in a suburb of Tikrit during a military operation to retake the city from the Islamic state group

Kirkuk (Iraq) (AFP) - An air strike in Iraq completely levelled one of the Islamic State jihadist group's largest car bomb factories on Wednesday in a massive explosion heard for kilometres (miles), officials said.

The strike hit a facility at the entrance to the town of Hawijah in northern Iraq that was used to rig vehicles, including armoured Humvees, with explosives for bombings that are one of IS's deadliest tactics, they said.

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