Does the terrible bombing in Baghdad prove that ISIS has not been defeated? ANI | Updated: Jan 25, 2021 11:04 IST
By John Solomou
Nicosia [Cyprus], January 25 (ANI): Last Thursday morning the center of the Iraqi capital Baghdad was shaken by a twin suicide bombing which killed at least 32 people and wounded more than 100, almost all Shia Muslims, in a second-hand clothes market in Tayaran Square.
The first suicide bomber, pretending to feel sick, cried out for help and when people went near him he detonated his explosive belt. As people rushed to help the victims, a second bomber blew himself up killing more people. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) assumed responsibility for the bombing, which it said had targeted apostate Shiites .
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