UPDATES WITH INCREASED DEATH TOLL
By Haydar Hadi
BAGHDAD (AA) – The death toll from Wednesday’s car-bomb attack in Baghdad’s predominantly-Shia Sadr City district has risen to 56, local medical sources have said.
Ali Jaasim, an assistant doctor at Sadr City’s Imam Ali Hospital also said the number of injured had risen to 78.
In a statement, the army’s Baghdad Operations Command said the attack — for which there has been no claim of responsibility as yet — had targeted a crowded marketplace.
In recent years, bombings and shooting attacks, which often target civilians, have become a common occurrence in war-torn Iraq, especially capital Baghdad.
Iraq has suffered a devastating security vacuum since 2014, when the Daesh terrorist group overran Mosul — the country’s second largest city — before going on to capture additional territory in both Iraq and Syria.
*Anadolu Agency correspondent Sibel Ugurlu contributed to this report from Ankara.
