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Two car bomb blasts are reported to have rocked the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, just hours after an attack on a market left 64 people dead.
Police sources told the Reuters news agency that at least 15 people had been killed in the northern Kadhimiya area and seven others in the city’s west.
A car bomb was also used in the earlier attack at the crowded market in the mainly Shia district of Sadr City.
The Sunni jihadist group Islamic State (IS) claimed it was responsible.
IS, which controls swathes of northern and western Iraq, has frequently targeted Shia, whom it considers heretics.
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Many of the victims in the Sadr City attack were children and women, including brides who appeared to be getting ready for their weddings at a beauty salon, Iraqi police and medical sources said.
Pictures showed vehicles and the facades of several buildings heavily damaged.
An eyewitness told the Associated Press that the bomb was in a pickup truck loaded with fruit and vegetables. Its driver parked the vehicle and quickly disappeared among the crowd, he said.
Source: BBC.com
