Several of the critically wounded died overnight while 112 people remain
in hospital, two police officials said. Also, at least five people were
still missing after the blast that ripped through the crowded Mredi
market in the Shiite district of Sadr City, followed by a suicide bombing amid the crowd that had quickly gathered at the site to help the victims.
Three medical officials confirmed the latest death toll, which rose from
the toll of 59 reported late Sunday. All officials spoke on condition
of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Iraq's Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi,
called on security forces to "exert further efforts to prevent the
terrorists from carrying out their crimes against innocent civilians."
Al-Abadi, in a statement released late Sunday, said the attacks "will
not stop us ... but they will increase the determination" of the army,
security forces and paramilitary troops to dislodge the militants from
areas under their control.
The special U.N. envoy to Iraq, Jan Kubis, called the Sadr City bombings
a "particularly vicious and cowardly terrorist attack" aimed against
"peaceful civilians who were going about their daily business."
"It is clearly aimed at inflaming sectarian strife," he said Monday.
The Islamic State group, which controls key areas in northern and
western Iraq, promptly claimed responsibility for Sunday's blasts. The
militant Sunni Muslim group regularly targets government forces,
civilians and especially Shiites, who the IS regards as heretics.
The market bombings in Sadr City were the deadliest attack in a wave of
explosions that targeted other commercial areas in and outside Baghdad
on Sunday and brought the day's overall death toll to 92.
Seven other civilians were killed in attacks elsewhere and in Baghdad's western suburb of Abu Ghraib,
security forces earlier Sunday repelled an attack by IS militants that
killed at least 12 members of the government and paramilitary troops and
wounded 35 others.
By: Sinan Salaheddin (AP).
Contributing: Murtada Faraj(AP).
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