At least 45 people are killed in bombing at popular car market in Baghdad
Source: The Washington Post
By Mustafa Salim and Kareem Fahim February 16 at 11:13 AM
BAGHDAD – At least 45 people were killed and dozens more injured when a bomb detonated at a popular car market in southwestern Baghdad on Thursday evening, the deadliest in a series of recent attacks in the capital blamed on the Islamic State militant group, the interior ministry said.
A ministry spokesman said the bomb was placed in a parked car at the market in the Bayaa neighborhood, between Baghdad’s international airport and the Tigris river. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Islamic State militants have carried out dozens of similar attacks in Baghdad, including one on Wednesday, in what is widely seen as a tactic meant to divert government forces as the militants lose ground on battlefields elsewhere in Iraq.
Videos of the bombing that circulated on the Internet showed large-scale damage and terrible scenes: a line of white minibuses in flames, firefighters stumbling from one fire to the next and bodies everywhere, disfigured on the ground or bundled into a crude wheelbarrow with someone’s arm dangling over the side.
“These are the Iraqi people,” a man, wailing, can be heard saying over and again in one of the video clips.
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