And 81 of the bodies are so charred, DNA testing will need to be conducted in order to identify them, al-Rubaye said. One couple at the scene was searching for their teenage son who'd gone to a cafe with his friends to celebrate his birthday. Crews are still on the scene in the Karrada neighborhood where the blast occurred, trying to pull bodies from the devastation. The Saturday night attack on a busy shopping district was the deadliest single incident in the Iraq's war-weary capital in years, killing at least 200 people, Mohamed al-Rubaye‎, the deputy head of the security committee of the Baghdad Provincial Council, said on Afaq TV Monday. Story highlights 200 people were killed in Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood81 bodies are so charred they will require DNA testing to identifyAngry over the failure to stop ISIS attacks, people threw objects at the PM's convoy as he made his way to survey the damage(CNN) Nearly two days after a suicide truck bomb ripped through Baghdad, families are still hoping that rescuers searching through the rubble can locate the bodies of their loved ones.

Source: CNN July 04, 2016 09:28 UTC