A busy Baghdad shopping street was targeted by ISIL on Sunday, killing nearly 80 people and wounding more than 100 as a car packed with explosives ripped through the Karada area while many in the capital were shopping ahead of the Eid holiday to mark the end of Ramadan.
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Fire fighters were still working to extinguish fires at the Karada blast site at dawn and bodies were still being recovered from charred buildings. Hadi Mizban/ AP Photo -
The attack killed 78 people and injured scores. Khalid al Mousily/Reuters -
ISIL issued a statement claiming the Karada attack, saying it was carried out by an Iraqi as part of the group’s ‘continuing security operations’. Khalid al Mousily/Reuters -
The extremist group said the bombing targeted members of Iraq’s Shiite Muslim majority, whom it considers heretics. Ali Abbas/EPA -
Many of the dead were children, according to witnesses at the scene. Ali Abbas/EPA -
People gathering at the site of a suicide car bomb in the Karrada shopping area, in Baghdad, Iraq July 3, 2016. Khalid al Mousily/Reuters -
Iraqi women wait for their family members who are missing after a car bomb in the Karada neighbourhood. Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo -
Iraqi security forces looking for victims as civilians gather at the site. Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo -
One of the damaged buildings at the blast site. Sabah Arar/AFP -
The Baghdad attacks come just over a week after Iraqi forces declared the city of Fallujah ‘fully liberated’ from ISIL. Ali Abbas/EPA
Scores killed as ISIL targets Ramadan shoppers in Baghdad - in pictures
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