Car Bomb Kills Iraqi Legislative Candidate Ahead Of 2025 Election, Investigation Team Formed

JAKARTA - Iraqi Prime Minister (PM) Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani instructed the authorities to form an investigative team to investigate the death of a 2025 Iraqi election legislative candidate in a bomb attack north of Baghdad recently.

Al-Sudani said the team consisted of a forensic task force and a committee tasked with uncovering the mastermind behind the sticky bomb that detonated a car containing a legislative candidate named Al-Mashhadani in Tarmiya district on Wednesday morning.

According to Baghdad's Operations Command, the bomb killed him Al-Mashhadani and injured four others.

Al Mashhadani, an incumbent member of the council from Baghdad Province, ran in parliamentary elections in the Iraqi elections which will be held on November 11, 2025. The death toll is part of the Siyada Coalition led by politician and businessman Sunni Khamis Al-Khanjar.

The chairman of the Iraqi Parliament, Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, condemned the killing using the bomb and demanded accountability for the incident. He described the attack as an attempt to destabilize the national situation ahead of the 2025 Iraqi elections.

So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the bomb attack.

Security officials said the use of magnetic explosive devices under vehicles reflected tactics used by militant groups in Iraq in previous years.

The bombing raised concerns about security and political violence as Iraq prepares for the democratic party contestation.