At least 60 killed in blast at market in Baghdad Shia neighbourhood
At least 60 people have been killed and 200 wounded in a bomb attack on a market in the Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, according to police and medical sources.
The blast occurred at around 6am local time (03:00 GMT) at the Jamila market, Reuters reported a police officer as saying. He said the bomb was carried in a refrigerator truck.
"Many people were killed and body parts were thrown on top of nearby buildings," the officer, named Muhsin al-Saedi, said.
A Reuters witness at the site saw fruit and vegetables mixed with blood and body remains littering the blast crater.
Rescuers pulling bodies from the rubble had to clamber over sheet metal that had formed the walls and roofs of vendors' stands.
The market is one of the largest wholesale food markets in the capital.
No group immediately claims of responsibility for the blast in what is a Shia district of the Iraqi capital, but Islamic State, the violent Sunni group, regularly sends bombers to Baghdad.