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Three bombings in Baghdad kill 69
Security forces and citizens inspect the scene after a suicide car bomb hit a crowded outdoor market in Baghdad’s eastern Shia neighborhood of Sadr City, Iraq, on Tuesday. (Photo: AP)
Security forces and citizens inspect the scene after a suicide car bomb hit a crowded outdoor market in Baghdad’s eastern Shia neighborhood of Sadr City, Iraq, on Tuesday. (Photo: AP)
Three bombings killed at least 69 people and wounded more than 100 in Baghdad on Tuesday, the police and medical sources said, extending the deadliest spate of attacks in the Iraqi capital so far tin 2016.
A suicide bombing claimed by ISIS in a marketplace in the northern, mainly Shia Muslim district of al-Shaab killed 40 people and wounded over 70, while a car bomb in nearby Shia Sadr City left at least 19 more dead and 17 wounded.
Interior ministry spokesman Saad Maan said it was carried out by a female suicide bomber. But ISIS issued a statement claiming the attack, which it said was carried out by a man identified as Abu Khattab al-Iraqi.
The bomber threw hand grenades and then detonated a suicide belt, ISIS said.
Another car bomb, in the mixed Shia-Sunni southern neighbourhood of al-Rasheed, killed six and wounded 21, the sources said, in what a military spokesman described as a suicide attack.
The attacks claimed by ISIS in and around the city last week killed more than 150 people, sparking anger in the streets over the government’s failure to ensure security.
