Baghdad, July 3 (Agencies): Over 80 people were killed and scores injured in two bombings that hit a shopping area and a popular market in Baghdad in the early hours of Sunday as they celebrated Ramadan, local TV channel al-Sumaria said. The car bomb blew up near a restaurant in Karrada, killing 76 people and wounding over a hundred, agency reports said. The second bombing hit al-Shaab, a popular Shi'ite district in the north of the Iraqi capital, killing half a dozen people. Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb in the Karrada shopping area, in a statement circulated online by supporters of the Sunni group. A video posted on social media showed a large blaze in main street of Karrada from the blast.

Source: The Telegraph July 03, 2016 10:07 UTC