Baghadad suicide attacks : At least 38 killed, 105 injured
Baghdad, Jan 15 (IBNS) : At least 38 people were killed and 105 others wounded in two suicide bombings in Baghdad on Monday morning, media reports said quoting Iraqi health and police officials.
The attackers struck during rush hour in the city’s Tayran Square, which is usually crowded with labourers seeking work.
Ambulances rushed to the scene as security forces sealed off the area.
Photographs posted on social media showed dead bodies and body parts.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but it bore all the hallmarks of Islamic State, which has claimed many such atrocities in the past.
“The bombings were carried out by two terrorists wearing explosive belts,” local media reports quoted Saad Maan, the Iraqi Interior Ministry’s spokesman as saying.
Tayaran is a major intersection in eastern Baghdad between Sadr city and al-Jumariyah bridge over the Euphrates.
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