BAGHDAD, Sept. 14 -- Up to 83 people were killed and 93 wounded on Thursday in coordinated attacks of a car bomb and a gunfire near the city of Nasriyah in Iraq's southern province of Dhi Qar, a provincial medical source said.
"The final casualties from the car bombing and gunfire attacks in Fadak area Dhi Qar province rose to 83 killed and 93 wounded, and many of them are in critical conditions," Jasim al-Khaledi, head of the provincial health department told Xinhua by telephone.
Many Iranian people were among the killed and wounded, Khaledi said.
Earlier Khaledi put the toll at 50 killed and 87 wounded by the two attacks.
The twin attacks occurred in the afternoon when gunmen attacked a restaurant at Fadak area in west of the city of Nasriyah, some 375 km south of Baghdad, while a car bomb detonated at a security checkpoint near the attacked restaurant, according to a provincial security source.
The Iraqi security forces clashes with the attackers at the scene and shot dead four of them, said the Rafidain Operations Command, which is responsible for the security in Dhi Qar province.
Later in the day, the Islamic State (IS) group claimed the responsibility for the twin attacks in Fadak area near Nasriyah, saying that its suicide bombers targeted a restaurant and a security checkpoint, the group said in an online statement, which its authenticity could not be immediately verified.
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