VIDEO: 127 People Killed in Iraq Bloody Tuesday: “Iraqi Body Count” Says

Wed May 18, 2016 16:01:08

ISIS kill at least 69 people in attacks on markets in Baghdad after suicide bomber detonates in a crowd and cars packed with explosives are driven into fruit stalls. According to “Iraqi Body Count “172 people killed in Iraq.

This Figure including 92 people killed by IEDs, suicide bombers and car bombs in Baghdad. Mosul: 14 executed. Fallujah: 10 in air strikes. Hawija: 5 bodies. Hit (Heet): 2 by IED. Riyadh: 1 by gunfire. Abu Saida: 1 by gunfire. Al-Horanih: 1 by gunfire and Daquq: 1 by IED.

But in Baghdad, ISIS has claimed responsibility for a series of bombing in Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad which have killed at least 69 people.

Tuesday's attacks targeted outdoor markets and are the deadliest attacks so far as ISIS (ISIL, IS ,Daesh, Islamic State), which is 100 per cent Sunni and considers Shiites to be heretics, tackles the Iraqi Army and Shia militias in areas north and west of the Iraqi capital, Daily Mail reports.

ISIS put out an online statement claiming responsibility for a callous attack in the Shaab district of north east Baghdad, which killed at least 34 people and wounded 75 others.

A roadside bomb exploded outside the concrete bomb-proof walls of an open-air market and, as people crowded around to help the victims, a suicide bomber blew himself up, causing the majority of the casualties.

ISIS, in a statement posted on a website often used by militants, claimed the suicide bomber was an Iraqi who targeted members of Shiite civilians.

A few minutes after the Shaab attack, a suicide bomber driving a car killed at least 18 people and wounded 35 others when he targeted Sadr City, a Shia-dominated eastern suburb.

Another car bomb also devastated a fruit and vegetable market in Dora, another Shiite neighbourhood in southern Baghdad, killing at least eight people and wounding 22 others.

A fourth explosion in the north eastern suburb of Habibiyah killed nine people and wounded at least 18. It is understood a suicide bomber walked into a restaurant before triggering his device.

Markets and mosques are the most common targets for ISIS, which is seeking to undermine the Iraqi government's efforts to maintain security inside the capital since the departure of US forces in 2011.

Since 2014 ISIS has controlled large swathes of Sunni-dominated northern and western Iraq, including the country's second-largest city, Mosul.

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