The Associated Press cited Iraqi officials who said that at least 54 were dead and 86 wounded, while Agence France-Presse said that at least 33 people have been killed in the explosions.
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Residents rushed to help the victims, carrying corpses in garbage bags and sending the wounded to local hospitals in ambulances or in personal cars.
Ambulances and fire vehicles raced towards the picture and firemen doused the however -smouldering complicated with water following the surge. He said the truck that blew up was a refrigeration truck, so it was impossible to distinguish it from other trucks delivering produce to the market.
Last month, an attack by the Islamic State group on a crowded marketplace in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province killed 115 people, including women and children, in one of the deadliest single attacks in the nation in the past decade.
The attack happened this morning in a crowded market in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City.
Security forces and volunteer groups are now focused on routing the insurgents from the Anbar in western Iraq. Baquba is also a predominantly Shiite area. He said this was their “last warning”.
“We hold the government responsible, fully responsible”, witness Ahmed Ali Ahmed said, calling on the authorities to dispatch the army and Shi’ite militias to man checkpoints in the capital.
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The government management system set up during the U.S. occupation which Iraq is now jettisoning, with numerous overlapping posts to be occupied by the country’s main ethnic and religious groups, was intended to reduce strife by keeping the government inclusive.
