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ByHadiMizbanandAli Abdul-Hassan The Associated Press HILLA, IRAQ A car bomb tore through a gas station south of Baghdad on Thurs- day, killing at least 56 peo- ple, including 20 Iranians, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Police and hospital of- ficials confirmed the toll and said another 45 people were wounded in the at- tack, which destroyed the gas station and set several cars on fire. The blast knocked out power at the station, forc- ing relatives looking for the remains of loved ones to use the glare of their mo- bile phones to guide them. Body parts that remained unclaimed were gathered in a blue bag and placed on the sidewalk outside the station. Large sections of the station were covered in blood. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Qashqavi was quoted by the semi-offi- cial Tasnim news agency as saying that 80 people were killed, including 40 Irani- ans. Conflicting death tolls are common in the after- math of large attacks. The Islamic State group claimed the attack in a brief statement carried by its Aa- maq news agency, saying it was a suicide truck bomb. The Iraqi officials said the target of the attack ap- pears to have been a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims heading home after tak- ing part in a major Shiite religious observance in the holy city of Karbala. The blast left the bus and some dozen cars charred. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity be- cause they were not autho- rized to speak to the me- dia. Thursday's attack came a day after several small-scale bombings in and around Baghdad killed 31 people and wounded more than a 100, a particularly bloody day even by the standards of the Iraqi capital, which has for more than a decade endured near-daily violence blamed on IS or its forerun- ner, al-Qaida in Iraq. In northern Iraq, mean- while, troops drove IS mil- itants from three more neighborhoods in Mosul, the country's second largest city, where U.S.-backed of- fensive has been underway for more than six weeks. Brig. Gen. Haider Fad- hil of the special forces told The Associated Press his men have retaken the neighborhoods of Amn, Qa- hira and Green Apartments and were expanding their foothold in the densely pop- ulated district of Zohour. The neighborhoods are all east of the Tigris River, where most of the fighting has taken place. A U.S.-led coalition is carrying out airstrikes to support the troops. Prime Minister Haider al- Abadi meanwhile flew to an airstrip outside the town of Tal Afar, to the west of Mo- sul, on a previously unan- nounced visit on Thursday, according to footage aired by the state-owned Iraqiya television network. The air- strip was seized from IS by state-sanctioned Shiite mi- litiamen earlier this week. GAS STATION IS car bomb kills 56, including 20 Iranians, in Iraq HUSSEINMALLA—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Iraqi special forces soldiers ride a tank past the Samah front line neighborhood, in Mosul, Iraq, on Thursday. By Joshua Goodman and Alba Tobella The Associated Press BOGOTA, COLOMBIA With less fervor and an added dose of uncertainty Colom- bia's government on Thurs- day signed another peace accord with the country's largest rebel group — the second in two months. The simple, hastily-or- ganized ceremony in a Bo- gota theater reflects Presi- dent Juan Manuel Santos' greater sense of urgency to end hostilities with the Rev- olutionary Armed Forces of Colombia after the original accord, brokered over four years of talks, suffered a shock defeat in a referen- dum a week after it was signed in front of heads of state and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Santos, winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, has tried to project a con- ciliatory image in the face of the humbling defeat at the polls. The new, 310-page ac- cord introduces some 50 changes intended to as- suage critics led by still- powerful former President Alvaro Uribe. They range from a prohibition on for- eign magistrates judging FARC crimes to a commit- ment from the insurgents to forfeit assets, some of them amassed through drug traf- ficking, to help compensate their victims. But the FARC wouldn't go along with the opposi- tion's strongest demands — jail sentences for rebel lead- ers who committed atroci- ties and stricter limits on their future participation in politics. In an act of protest, members of Uribe's political party are considering a boy- cott of next week's sched- uled debate in congress on ratifying the agreement, accusing the legislature of disobeying the constitution. They're also threatening to call for street protests to de- nounce what they say is a "blow against democracy." "The government pre- ferred to impose itself in a way that divides Colom- bians instead of a national pact that would bring us to- gether," Uribe's Democratic Center party said in a state- ment Wednesday. The lack of broad support for the accord will make the already-steep challenge of implementing it even tougher. Colombians overwhelm- ingly loathe the FARC for crimes such as kidnap- pings and drug-trafficking. Ensuring that the 8,000- plus fighters don't wind up joining criminal gangs ram- pant throughout the coun- try, or the much-smaller Na- tional Liberation Army, will also test the state's ability to make its presence felt in traditionally-neglected ru- ral areas at a time of finan- cial stress triggered by low oil prices. There's also a risk that peace could trigger more bloodshed, as it did follow- ing a previous peace pro- cess with the FARC in the 1980s when thousands of former guerrillas, labor ac- tivists and communist mili- tants were gunned down by right-wing militias, some- times in collaboration with state agents. That fear, although less prevalent than in the darker days of Colombia's half-cen- tury conflict, has become more urgent with more than a dozen human rights defenders and land activists in areas dominated by the FARC being killed by un- known assailants since the first signing ceremony in September. ACCORD With less fervor, Colombia takes another stab at peace with signed agreement FERNANDO VERGARA — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, front le , gives a peace pin to the top commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, Rodrigo Londono a er they signed a peace agreement in Cartagena, Colombia. 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