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Suicide bomb attack kills seven in Baghdad market: police, medical sources

Jan 8, 2017, 2:02 PM
News ID: 8966

EghtesadOnline: A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded marketplace in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding over a dozen others, police and medical sources said.

The attack in the mainly Shi'ite district of Baladiyat was the second bomb attack to hit the Iraqi capital on Sunday. A suicide car bomb claimed by Islamic State at another market killed 13 people earlier in the day, Reuters reported.