At least 32 people were killed and 110 injured on Thursday when Islamic State suicide bombers targeted a busy market in central Baghdad, in the deadliest such attack in the city for three years. The Iraqi interior ministry said the explosions near Tayaran Square, the scene of a previous IS suicide attack, had been designed to cause maximum casualties, and the bombers had appealed to passers-by for assistance before detonating their vests. "The first suicide bomber said he was sick, asked for help, gathered people around him and detonated the bomb," the ministry said in a statement on Thursday morning’s attack. "The second suicide bomb detonated as soon as others gathered to help the victims of the first bomb." Police sources said many of the victims had died instantly while others were missing or seriously injured in hospital. They included shoppers, stall-holders and day labourers who had come to the square to look for work. The Islamic State group claimed r
Homens-bomba matam ao menos 28 em Bagdá, no Iraque
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Irākā pašnāvnieku uzbrukumos vismaz 28 nogalinātie
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