Pope Francis has prayed for the victims of devastating terrorist attacks in Iraq, Bangladesh and Turkey.
Speaking to the faithful in St Peter’s Square on Sunday, he offered his “closeness to the families of all the people killed and wounded” in two attacks over the weekend.
In Dhaka,the capital of Bangladesh, an attack on a café left 28 people dead. The following day later a lorry loaded with explosives detonated near a shopping centre in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 200 people.
ISIS claimed responsibility for both attacks but a Bangladeshi official said the terrorists were members of a homegrown jihadist group.
