125 persons including 25 children killed and 147 were injured as a suicide car bomb exploded on Saturday evening in a busy shopping district of Baghdad.
Families had gathered in the popular area to
break the Ramadan fast and watch the Euro 2016 soccer tournament in a cafe when
a suicide car bomb exploded, ripping through a multi-level building that also
housed stores and a gym.
A second bomb exploded Sunday at an outdoor
market in the Shaab neighborhood of southeastern Baghdad, killing one person
and wounding five others, police said.
The attacks came just days after massacres at
a cafe in Dhaka,
Bangladesh and at the Ataturk International
Airport in Istanbul, Turkey.
"These acts of mass
murder are yet another example of Daesh's contempt for human life," said
State Department John Kirby, using another term for ISIS. "From Baghdad to
Istanbul, Brussels, Dhaka, and Paris, Daesh terrorists murder the innocent to
attract attention and recruits. They will not succeed."
ISIS claimed
responsibility for the Karrada attack in a statement posted on Twitter. The
group claimed it was targeting Shiite neighborhoods. Karrada and Shaab are
predominately Shiite.
This is said to be the deadliest attack of Iraq in many years.
Source: CNN
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