Death toll from dawn blasts in Iraq capital exceeds 90
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Iraqi firefighters and civilians carry bodies of victims killed in a car bomb at a commercial area in Karrada neighborhood, Baghdad, July 3, 2016.
The death toll from two bombings in a Shia Muslim neighborhood in Baghdad at dawn Sunday jumps to 91, Iraqi security and health officials say.
According to the reports, they said 86 people were killed and at least 200 others wounded when a car bomb went off at a busy commercial street in Baghdad’s Shia neighborhood of Karrada. A police official was quoted as saying that the dead included 15 children, 10 women and six policemen.
Footage posted on social media showed a large blaze in the main street of Karrada.
The second explosion occurred at an outdoor market in the Shaab neighborhood of southeastern Baghdad, leaving five dead and wounding five others.
In a twitter post, the Daesh terror group claimed responsibility for the attacks which, it said, were aimed at Shia neighborhoods.
Having suffered heavy losses on the battlefield against Iraqi soldiers, Daesh has recently stepped up its terror attacks across Baghdad, particularly the neighborhoods populated by Shia Muslims.
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