Bombing That Killed More Than 200 Deadliest Attack In Baghdad In Years

[Purveyor]

Source: CNN

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Joe Sterling, Tiffany Ap and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN
Updated 5:20 PM ET, Mon July 4, 2016

(CNN)More than a day after a suicide truck bomb ripped through Baghdad, families are still hoping that rescuers searching through the rubble can locate the bodies of their loved ones.

The bombing early Sunday in a busy shopping district was the deadliest single attack in Iraq's war-weary capital in years, killing at least 215 people, Mohamed al-Rubaye?, deputy head of the security committee of the Baghdad Provincial Council, said Monday on Afaq TV.

Crews remain at the scene in the Karrada neighborhood where the blast occurred, trying to pull bodies from the devastation. Around 175 people were wounded, Rubaye said.

And 81 of the bodies are so charred, DNA testing will need to be conducted to identify them, he said.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/04/middleeast/baghdad-car-bombs/index.html

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. For a group that is losing the war they are doing an excellent job destabilizing the area.

[L. Coyote]

2. These are responses to the US air strikes.

We just keep making more people angry. The terrorism factory is working at full tilt, producing more terrorist every day.

[JI7]

3. "we" ? those targeted and the victims are iraqi muslim families

[KeizoOshima2]

4. Very sad

I wonder if things will ever improve in that part of the world.