A car bomb exploded on Wednesday in a busy marketplace close to a mosque in a majority Shi’ite area of Baghdad, killing 10 people and wounding 25, a security official said.
The explosion occurred at about 9am local time in the Kamaliyah neighbourhood at the eastern edge of the city, the official said.
”The explosion took place in the middle of a busy market near the al-Kamaliyah mosque,” he added.
The attack comes just a day after a pair of suicide car bombers blew themselves up in the midst of a crowd of casual day labourers, mostly Shi’ites, killing at least 70 and wounding more than 200 in Baghdad’s Tayaran Square.
Sunni extremists have carried out a series of brutal attacks against Iraq’s majority community in the past few weeks — the deadliest on November 23 in Sadr City, which killed more than 200 people.
It was the biggest single attack in Iraq since the March 2003 war to topple Saddam Hussein. — Sapa-AFP