Death toll increases to 50 in Baghdad bomb attacks

Two bomb attacks at a crowded market in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, have killed at least 50 people, police and medical sources say.

According to Press TV, the bombs, which also injured 60 people, went off in the mainly Shia Muslim district of Sadr City on Sunday, the sources said.

The ISIL Takfiri terrorists claimed responsibility for the blasts. Police said the death toll could rise.

Earlier in the day, Daesh Takfiri terrorists launched their largest attack in months on the outskirts of the capital, Baghdad, killing at least a dozen Iraqi forces.

Security officials said the terrorists carried out bombing and shooting attacks against a barracks housing security forces in Baghdad’s suburb of Abu Ghraib, which is 25 km west of the city center, on Sunday.

At least 12 security forces were killed and 35 others wounded.

Dozens of militants driving Humvees and pickup trucks with machine guns fixed on them attacked from the nearby Daesh-controlled areas of Garma and Fallujah, army and police sources added.

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