“On Thursday, the security forces arrested four suspects for bombing two cars on Monday …. and the default of the security forces led to the occurrence of the bombings,” according to an official source in Karbala police.

the security forces arrested four suspects in Karbala bombings … and the investigations are underway with the detainees to know the perpetrators of the process.” Major Alaa Abbas Al-Ghanimi, the director of relations and media in Karbala police said.

On Monday, two bombed cars exploded in Karbala, killed and injured 70 people and caused extensive material damage.

Al-Ghanimi added: “We admit the default of security forces in these incidents, so the commander of Central Euphrates Lt. Gen. Othman Al-Ghanimi and Karbala police chief, Major General Ali Jassim Al-Ghureiry met on Wednesday to put a new security plan to protect the entrances of the city,” denying “the news reported by some TV fstations about dismantling of a bombed car and explosive device at the center of Karbala today. ”

The member of Karbala security council Jassim Fatlawi saidthe security committee in the province council will meet next on Saturday to decide the fate of security leaders in Karbala after the successive blasts that the province witnessed over the past four months and caused a large number of victims, the strongest bombing  was at Imam Hussein memorial where more than 200 people were killed and wounded.

Karbala province is 108 km south-west of the capital Baghdad.