Updated: 10:56 2020-01-04

Following early reporting by Reuters as well as multiple other news agencies, the leader of the Popular Mobilization Front(PMF), an Iran backed militia, stated that the bombing actually hit a group of medical vans rather than militia leaders.

Soon after Iraqi military denied that any strike took place in northern Baghdad on Saturday.

Following that denial, the PMF issued another statement saying that no medical convoys were targeted in Taji.

Airstrikes have hit a convoy carrying Iraqi militia north of Baghdad at 1:12 local time, according to an Iraqi source speaking to Reuters.

Reuters also found that the strike hit two of three vehicles, left six corpses, and three wounded.

MORE: Two of three vehicles making up an Iran-backed militia convoy were found burned north of Baghdad, as well as six burned corpses, an Iraqi army source said. The strikes critically wounded three and took place at 1:12 a.m. local time, he added https://t.co/Hz4DCG6TCB pic.twitter.com/CAMnAv3As9 — Reuters (@Reuters) January 3, 2020

According to a tweet from Sky News Arabia, two eyewitnesses have said the vehicles were carrying members of an Iran backed militia.

These alleged strikes follow another carried out yesterday which killed the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qasem Soleimani.

#BREAKING A day after the air strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, Reuters is reporting that another air strike has happened north of Baghdad https://t.co/IFAvVXASbb pic.twitter.com/koLkXfnxYq — Natasha Fatah (@NatashaFatah) January 4, 2020

The IRGC is designated as a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Canada and the United States.

Canada has also designated the IRGC’s Quds forces as a terrorist entity since 2012.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.