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Back-to-back suicide attacks on a market in central Baghdad killed 32 people and injured 110 on Thursday.
The two bombers detonated their explosives at a secondhand clothes market in the
Bab Al Sharji area, said Interior Ministry spokesman Brig Gen Khalid Al Muhana. He said many poor people use the outdoor market.
The first bomber claimed to be ill but when people gathered around him, he blew himself up, Brig Gen Al Muhana said. The second bomber set off his explosives when people rushed to the scene.
Health Minister Hassan Al Tamimi confirmed the death toll.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in a message posted on the Telegram channel of its Amaq news agency early on Friday.
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Baghdad, Jan 21 (efe-epa).- At least 28 people were killed after two suicide bombings hit a street market in central Baghdad, Iraq’s Joint Operations Command confirmed Thursday.
According to Iraqi television reports, the Joint Operations Command said that another 73 people were wounded in what was described by the authorities as a “terror attack.”
Spokesman for the Iraqi commander-in-chief Yehia Rasoul said on Twitter that two suicide bombers blew themselves up while they were being pursued by security forces in Bab al-Sharki area in the Iraqi capital.
A security source told Efe on the condition of anonymity that the death toll for the attack that was carried out by an “explosive belt and an improvised explosive device” could still increase, saying that some of the wounded were in critical condition.