Truck bomb kills at least 60 in Baghdad's Sadr City

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Source: Reuters

Truck bomb kills at least 60 in Baghdad's Sadr City - sources

Source: Reuters - Thu, 13 Aug 2015 04:59 GMT

BAGHDAD, Aug 13 (Reuters) - At least 60 people were killed and 200 wounded on Thursday when a refrigerated truck packed with explosives blew up in a crowded market in Sadr City, a Shi'ite district in northeastern Baghdad, police and medical sources said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, but Islamic State, ultra-radical Sunni Muslim militants who seized swathes of northern Iraq last year, have claimed similar attacks targeting Shi'ite neighbourhoods. (Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; Writing by Stephen Kalin; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

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1. Islamic State claims huge truck bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City

At least 76 people were killed and 212 wounded on Thursday in a blast claimed by Islamic State in Baghdad's Sadr City, police and medical sources said, one of the biggest attacks on the capital since Haider al-Abadi became prime minister a year ago.

"A refrigerator truck packed with explosives blew up inside Jamila market at around 6 a.m. (0300 GMT)," police officer Muhsin al-Saedi said. "Many people were killed and body parts were thrown on top of nearby buildings."

A statement circulated online by supporters of Islamic State said the blast had targeted what it called a stronghold of the "charlatan army" and Shi'ite Muslim militias.

The market in the Shi'ite neighborhood is one of the biggest in Baghdad selling wholesale food items. A Reuters witness at the site saw fruit and vegetables mixed with shrapnel littering the blood-soaked blast crater.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/13/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-violence-idUSKCN0QI0DE20150813

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. I wonder if Iraq can ever be put back together.

[Throd]

3. No. It can not.

It was a phony construct to begin with.