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.
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