REUTERS-A suicide car bomb blast claimed by Islamic State killed at least 13
people and wounded more than 50 others at a vegetable market in eastern Baghdad
on Sunday,
police and medical sources said.
The attacker drove the car through a gate to the market in the mainly
Shi'ite district of Jamila, and detonated the bomb after security forces opened
fire on the vehicle, a police source said.
Islamic State claimed the attack in an online statement, saying the
bomber had targeted "a gathering of Shi'ites" in the area.
A series of attacks in the Iraqi capital and other cities in the country
have killed dozens of people in just over a week.
Several have been claimed by Islamic State, which is coming under
increasing pressure from a U.S.-backed offensive in Mosul, its last major
stronghold in Iraq.
Iraqi forces advanced to within several hundred meters of the Tigris
river than runs through Mosul on Saturday, as their operation against the
ultra-hardline group gathers pace.
Islamic State is likely to resort to bomb attacks and similar tactics
elsewhere in Iraq as it is driven out of its Mosul stronghold.
REUTERS
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