Iraqis look at the aftermath following a double bomb attack in a busy market
The attacks took place early Saturday morning in al-Sinaq, a busy market selling car accessories, food and clothes as well as agricultural seeds and machinery.
Details were sketchy in the immediate aftermath. Police at first said a pair of back-to-back roadside bombs exploded.
But later a police official said first a roadside bomb exploded, then a suicide bomber detonated his device amid the crowd that had gathered.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but the Islamic State (IS) group regularly targets civilians in the Iraqi capital.
The IS group has lost much of the northern and western territory it seized in 2014 and is now resisting an Iraqi offensive on the northern city of Mosul, the ultra-hardline group’s last major stronghold in the country.
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