Samawa

Hussam al-Aqouli remembers the exact spot along southern Iraq's Lake Sawa where his two daughters once dipped their feet into clear waters. Now he stands there two years on and the barren earth cracks beneath him.

Two suicide car bombs claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) killed at least 32 people and wounded 75 others in the centre of the southern Iraqi city of Samawa on May 1, police and medics said.