Baghdad suicide blast kills at least 9 in Shia district

At least nine people have been killed in a car bombing claimed by ISIS in Baghdad as takfiris continue their bloody insurgency.

At least nine people have been killed in a car bombing claimed by ISIS in Baghdad as takfiris continue their bloody insurgency.

A suicide bomber targeted Shia Muslims in Karrada district of Iraq’s capital on Monday evening, detonating an explosive-laden near a hospital.

Witnesses said the blast hit near the site of another attack by the so-called Islamic State that killed 324 people in July in one of the deadliest atrocities since the start of the Iraq war in 2003.

Medical sources said 20 people were also wounded in the blast and there are fears the death toll could rise as recovery operations continued.