Baghdad bombings kill 28; ISIS claims responsibility - CNN

Baghdad market bombings kill 66; ISIS claims responsibility

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN

Updated 0729 GMT (1529 HKT) February 29, 2016

Men clean up the site of a bombing at a market in the Sadr City area of Baghdad Sunday. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
Men clean up the site of a bombing at a market in the Sadr City area of Baghdad Sunday. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.

(CNN)Two blasts that rocked a busy outdoor market in eastern Baghdad on Sunday killed at least 66 people, Iraq's Health Ministry said Monday.

Police officials said a motorcycle rigged with explosives and a suicide bomber caused the explosions, which injured at least 161 people in the predominantly Shiite district of Sadr City.
In a statement released by its media wing, ISIS claimed responsibility for what it described as two suicide bomb attacks.

    CNN's Kevin Wang contributed to this report.