Over 20 killed as suicide bombers hit local market

No fewer than 28 persons have been killed at a busy market in Iraq’s capital city. Dozens more were injured.

DW reports that t the two suicide blasts at a market in central Baghdad on Thursday killed at least 28 people, according to the Iraqi military.

A further 73 people were injured, Major General Kadhem Bohan, the head of Iraq’s civil defense unit, told reporters.

The first suicide bomber rushed into the market and claimed to feel sick, so that people would gather around him. He then detonated his explosive belt, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

A second attacker detonated his bomb as people gathered around the victims of the first attack, the ministry said.