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Deadly Blast In Busy Baghdad Marketplace Caught On Video
Published 3 years ago
A pair of suicide bombings ripped through a busy Baghdad marketplace on Jan. 21, 2021, killing over 30 people and injuring over a hundred more. One of the blasts was captured on video.
Reports indicate that the first suicide bomber created a scene, feigning distress and then detonating the device as a crowd gathered around to selflessly assist the bomber. The second bomber waited nearby as a second group gathered around the site of the first blast assisting the wounded, and then the bomber detonated the second device, causing more fatalities and injuries.
Although multiple rocket attacks have been carried out in Baghdad by pro-Iran Shia militants, this attack has the hallmarks of a Sunni/salafist operation, possibly al Qaeda or the Islamic State, but that is just speculation at this point as no group has yet taken credit for the deadly attack. This is the first such attack in Baghdad in over two years.