VIDEO: 170 killed and Injured in Baghdad's Deadliest Sunday

Mon Feb 29, 2016 09:14:17

A twin suicide bombing claimed by ISIS killed 70 people in a Shiite district of Baghdad on Sunday in the deadliest attack inside the capital this year, as militants launched an assault on its western outskirts.

Police sources said the suicide bombers were riding motorcycles and blew themselves up in a crowded mobile phone market in Sadr City, wounding more than 100 people in addition to the dead, Reuters reported.

In a statement circulated online, ISIS terror group said it was responsible for the blasts.

Also At dawn on Sunday, suicide bombers and gunmen attacked Iraqi security forces in Abu Ghraib, seizing positions in a grain silo and a cemetery, and killing at least 17 members of the security forces, officials said.

Security officials blamed Daesh, and a news agency that supports the group said it had launched a "wide attack" in Abu Ghraib, 25 km (15 miles) from the center of Baghdad and next to the international airport.

Security forces repelled the attack later.

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