At least 31 people, including women and children, have been killed and dozens injured in a suicide bombing at a popular market in Baghdad’s eastern Shi’ite district on the eve of Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, the most important Muslim holiday.
According to security and medical sources, among the dead are 15 women and children and the number of injured exceeds 50.
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Iraqi President Barham Saleh denounced on Twitter “a horrible crime of unprecedented brutality.” “They are targeting our civilians in Sadr City on the eve of Eid. They do not accept that people are happy, even for a moment,” he said.
“Aid night of grief in Iraq,” the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Iraq wrote on Twitter. For his part, moderate Shiite leader Amar al-Hakim condemned the attack and called on the authorities to “take action to protect the lives of civilians.”
