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A suicide bomber detonated a pick-up truck on Wednesday in Sadr City, a heavily populated poor Shi’ite suburb of Baghdad, killing at least 15 and wounding 50, security sources said. The bombing, the deadliest so far this year in Baghdad, is the second to hit car markets this week, after one on Wednesday. Islamic has stepped up bombings in Iraq last year, in retaliation to a U.S.-backed campaign that dislodged the hardline Sunni group from most Iraqi cities it took over in 2014. The militants also control parts of neighbouring Syria.
A suicide bomber detonates a pick-up truck full of explosives at a busy street in northern Baghdad, killing at least nine people.