Blast rocks Baghdad marketplace, differing accounts on casualties


  • World
  • Friday, 10 May 2019

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A blast rocked Baghdad's northeastern Sadr City district on Thursday but accounts differed on whether it caused any casualties. Islamic State claimed responsibility.

Police Colonel Jamal Hameed told Reuters a parcel had been found on the side of the road near a market and detonated in a controlled explosion, hurting no one.

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