The death toll from a car bombing in Baghdad at the
weekend has risen to at least 250, an Iraqi Health Ministry source
told dpa on Wednesday.
Some critically injured victims died in hospital, the source said,
while several more bodies were recovered on Tuesday from the site of
the attack.
The bomb went off at about 1 am Sunday (2200 GMT Saturday) in
Baghdad’s central district of Karada.
At the time, families were shopping for presents for the Eid festival
at the end of Ramadan, and restaurants were crowded for the pre-dawn
meal in preparation for a day of fasting.
More than 300 people were wounded.
The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility for the
attack. In a statement circulated online by Islamic State supporters,
which dpa could not verify, it claimed that a suicide bomber targeted
Shiites.
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