At Least 76 Killed in Baghdad Market Truck Bombing

At least 76 people were killed and 212 wounded in a bomb attack on Thursday at a popular food market in Baghdad's Sadr City district, police and medical sources said.

According to local police, a refrigerator truck packed with explosives blew up inside the Jamila market at around 6 a.m. local time (11 p.m. EST).

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in the Shi'ite Muslim neighborhood, but ISIS militants, who seized swathes of northern and western Iraq last year, regularly send bombers into the capital.

The bombing was one of the largest attacks on the capital since Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi took office a year ago. 

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