A car bombing attack in Baghdad claimed by DAESH killed at least 65 people and injured dozens of others, Reuters reports citing hospital and police sources. The car bomb set of in a Shiite Muslim district of the Iraqi capital.
An SUV rigged with explosives was parked near a beauty salon in a busy market in the Sadr City neighborhood, Iraqi police reported.
The bomb was detonated by a suicide bomber, a media outlet that sympathizes with DAESH reported.
The blast killed over 20 people on the spot while others succumbed to their wounds shortly after. At least 74 people were injured by the blast, and many remain in critical condition.
DAESH targeted Sadr City in February in a twin bombing attack, which claimed the lives of 70 people.
The group is ultra-conservative (Wahhabism) Sunni Muslim and considers Muslims adhering to other sects of Islam apostates and their enemies.
Military officers and former officials of Saddam Hussein’s government, whose careers were ruined by the change of regime in Baghdad, were instrumental in DAESH´s rise from a little-known Iraqi ally of Al-Qaeda to the most-publicized terrorist threat in the modern world.
