Car Bomb Kills 9 North of Baghdad

Local Editor

At least nine people were martyred and over 30 more injured after a powerful car bomb explosion struck a busy market in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

The vegetable market, located in the northern neighborhood of Rashidiyah, was crowded with people when it came under attack on Tuesday morning.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in Rashidiya, but Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist "ISIS" group] regularly carries out such bombings in the capital and other parts of Iraq, where it seized large swathes of territory in 2014.

Baghdad has seen a dramatic rise in such terror attacks over the past weeks, most of them claimed by Daesh.

In the deadliest incident, nearly 300 people lost their lives after a bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a shopping district in the Iraqi capital's Karrada neighborhood.

On Thursday, at least 37 civilians lost their lives and 62 others were injured when Daesh militants carried out a bombing and shooting attack near a holy Shia mausoleum north of Baghdad.

The fresh wave of violence in Baghdad prompted Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi to sack a number of high-ranking officials responsible for security in the capital, including the head of the Baghdad Operations Command.

According to the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, a total of 662 Iraqis were killed and another 1,457 wounded in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in June.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team