BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber driving a car killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 40 others today in an attack near a group of Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in a southeastern suburb of Baghdad, Iraqi police sources said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast at a market in the Nahrawan district but ISIS terrorists regularly attack Shi'ite Muslims, whom they consider apostates.
The pilgrims had been heading to Baghdad's Imam Kadhim shrine to commemorate the 8th century death of one of Shi'ite Islam's senior figures.
The rise of ISIS, which is fighting government forces for control of swathes of northern and western Iraq, has exacerbated the country's sectarian conflict, mostly between Shi'ites and Sunnis, which emerged after the 2003 US-led invasion.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast at a market in the Nahrawan district but ISIS terrorists regularly attack Shi'ite Muslims, whom they consider apostates.
The pilgrims had been heading to Baghdad's Imam Kadhim shrine to commemorate the 8th century death of one of Shi'ite Islam's senior figures.
The rise of ISIS, which is fighting government forces for control of swathes of northern and western Iraq, has exacerbated the country's sectarian conflict, mostly between Shi'ites and Sunnis, which emerged after the 2003 US-led invasion.
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