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Suicide bomb attack kills 10 in Baghdad market

January 8, 2017 at 12:48 pm

A wreckage of a car is seen after a car bomb attack at el-Cedide street in Baghdad, Iraq on December 31, 2016 [ Amir Saadi / Anadolu Agency]

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded marketplace in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least ten 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 Daesh at another market killed 13 people earlier in the day.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry  issued a statement to condemn the attack and convey its condolences to the Iraqi people.