UPDATE: Baghdad car bomb kills 50, 60 wounded
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A car bomb in Baghdad killed at least 50 people and wounded 60 others in the capital’s Shiite Sadr neighborhood on Wednesday, as four suicide bombers detonated their payloads of explosives but failed to cause casualties.
The car bomb exploded at the local Areba bazaar in Baghdad, media and official sources said.
They said that the scene of the attack had been cordoned by police and casualties were rushed to hospitals.
An earlier death toll of 31 had been expected to climb because sources said some of the wounded were in critical condition.
Meanwhile, the Baghdad Operations Command announced shortly after the car blast that four suicide bombers from the Islamic State (ISIS) detonated their payloads after they were surrounded by security forces.
"Relying on intelligence information about ISIS suicide-bomber cells in the area of Albu Khamis in northern Iraq, security forces were able to raid the cell.But before being caught the suspects blew themselves up," said Saad Maan, a spokesperson for the Operations Command.He said the suicide bombers failed to cause casualties, and that they were Iraqis and Asians.
The car bomb exploded at the local Areba bazaar in Baghdad, media and official sources said.
They said that the scene of the attack had been cordoned by police and casualties were rushed to hospitals.
An earlier death toll of 31 had been expected to climb because sources said some of the wounded were in critical condition.
Meanwhile, the Baghdad Operations Command announced shortly after the car blast that four suicide bombers from the Islamic State (ISIS) detonated their payloads after they were surrounded by security forces.
"Relying on intelligence information about ISIS suicide-bomber cells in the area of Albu Khamis in northern Iraq, security forces were able to raid the cell.But before being caught the suspects blew themselves up," said Saad Maan, a spokesperson for the Operations Command.He said the suicide bombers failed to cause casualties, and that they were Iraqis and Asians.