BAGHDAD (IRAQ) – A twin suicide bombing turned fatal for at least 13 people and injured more than 30 in a Baghdad market on Thursday in a rare attack in years, security and medical sources said.
No one has yet taken any immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Suicide bombings haven’t happened since the Islamic State was brought down in 2017. The last such incident took place in January 2018.
The Iraqi military said two attackers with explosive vests blew themselves up amid shoppers at a crowded market in Tayaran Square in central Baghdad. It was added that several people had been killed.
An interior ministry spokesman told that the death toll was at least 13, saying that number was likely to increase as some of the injured were in critical condition.
The last deadly suicide blast in the Iraqi capital happened in January 2018, also at Tayaran Square, taking the lives of at least 27 people.