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22 Jan. 2021 / 10:37

Iraq bombing: IS says it was behind deadly suicide attacks in Baghdad

The Islamic State (IS) group has said it was behind a double suicide bombing in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Thursday that killed at least 32 people and wounded more than 100, BBC reports.

The target had been Shia Muslims, a statement from the Sunni Islamist militant group's Amaq news agency said.

It was the biggest suicide attack in Baghdad for three years.

The bombers blew themselves up among a crowd of shoppers at a second-hand clothes market in Tayaran Square.

The admission by the jihadist group, made via its accounts on the messaging app Telegram, came several hours after the attack.

Suicide bombings have become rare in Baghdad since IS was militarily defeated in the region at the end of 2017.

IS once controlled 88,000 sq km of territory from eastern Iraq to western Syria and imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people.

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