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A car bomb has killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in Baghdad.
ADVERTISEMENTA car bomb has killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in Baghdad.
The deadly blast occured in the south of the city in a neighbourhood of used car dealers. In an online statement ISIL said it carried out the strike.
The attack is the second to hit a car market this week and comes amid a wave of deadly violence in the Iraqi capital.
On Wednesday, at least 15 people were killed in Baghdad’s Sadr City suburb after a suicide bomber detonated his pick-up truck. A day earlier, four people died in a car bombing.
ISIL has stepped up its campaign of violence inside the country in retaliation for being dislodged from several cities it seized in 2014.
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