AKIPRESS.COM - ISIS has claimed responsibility for an assault on a Baghdad gas plant Sunday, the latest in a series of deadly attacks committed by the Sunni terror group that have claimed more than 100 lives in recent days.

Baghdad Governor Ali al-Tamimi said 10 people, including seven police officers and three guards, were killed during the assault on the facility in the Taji area, north of Iraq's capital, at 5 a.m. local time Sunday, CNN reports.

Police officials said the attack began with a suicide car bomb at the entrance of the plant, then a second suicide bomber detonated an explosive inside the facility.

Six ISIS militants then tried to storm inside, but security forces were able to repel them, police said. Two military helicopters were deployed from Taji military base to fight the militants, police said.

The attack left 24 people injured and three gas storage tanks burning at the plant, which produces cooking gas canisters.

In a statement on his official Facebook page, al-Tamimi slammed security arrangements at the plant, saying the facility was inadequately protected.

He said the officers charged with guarding the plant had only light weapons compared to the ISIS attackers, and that an elite response team arrived at the incident hours after the attack began. The attack would not affect production at the plant, Iraq's Oil Ministry said Sunday.