A suicide car bomb ripped through an outdoor market in a Shia-dominated northeastern district of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, officials said. Five more people died in bombings on Tuesday elsewhere in Iraq.
An explosives-laden pickup truck exploded at a vegetable and fruit market in the al-Rashidiya district, a police officer said.
The blast killed 12 and wounded up to 37, he added. Elsewhere, a bomb went off at another outdoor market, in Mahmoudiya, about 30 km south of Baghdad, killing three shoppers and wounding 10 people. No group immediately claimed responsibility but the attacks bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State (IS) group
