It is the primary attack of this sort in three years and occurred in Tayaran Square, an equivalent place where two people detonated explosives in 2018. The authorities point to the Islamic State because the alleged liable for the attack, which leaves a minimum of 32 dead and about 110 wounded. A man, within the middle of the Tayaran clothing market, yelled that he was sick. When a crowd was around him to assist him, the terrorist activated his explosive belt. Shortly after, a second man detonated a tool a bit as he had.
This was the double suicide attack that happened in Baghdad this Thursday, January 21, consistent with Major General Tahsin al-Khafaji, spokesman for the Joint Operations Command, which incorporates a variety of Iraqi forces. a minimum of 32 people died and another 110 were injured. The attack happened within the Bab al-Sharqi commercial area within the city center. The Iraqi authorities attribute the attack to the Islamic State, although thus far neither that nor the other armed group has claimed responsibility. Iraqi security forces deployed their agents and blocked the most roads within the city to stop possible further attacks, officials told Reuters.
This is the primary suicide attack within the city within the last three years. The previous one occurred right within the same clothing market, on January 15, 2018, when then-Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over the Islamic State, despite the very fact that the armed group remains present within the north of the country. thereon occasion, it had been also a double suicide attack. Before, these sorts of attacks were common, especially thanks to the US invasion of Iraq between 2003 and 2011. Since October 2019, there are multiple protests in Iraq against what they concede to be a corrupt form of the government liable for poverty rates. Even within the same Tayaran Square, there have been demonstrations last Wednesday that left a minimum of five dead, deaths that are added to the quite 450 that have occurred since the start of the protests quite a year ago.
