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At least 23 people are dead following twin suicide blasts at a Baghdad market

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A twin suicide bombing has killed at least 23 people and wounded dozens more in a Baghdad market in the first such attack in years, security and medical sources say.

Suicide bombings have been rare in the Iraqi capital since the defeat of Islamic State in 2017, with the most recent taking place in January 2018.

The Iraqi military said two attackers wearing explosive vests blew themselves up among shoppers at a crowded market in Tayaran Square in central Baghdad. An interior ministry spokesman told Reuters the death toll was at least 23, with that number expected to rise as some of those wounded were in a critical condition.

Baghdad has witnessed almost no such attacks since Iraqi forces and a US-backed coalition drove the Islamic State militant group from territory it controlled in Iraq in 2017. The last deadly suicide blast in the Iraqi capital took place three years ago, also at Tayaran Square, killing at least 27 people.

 

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Blame Trump.

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