TEMPO.CO, Baghdad - At least 42 people have been killed after a motorcycle rigged with explosives was detonated in Baghdad's Sadr City and armed men targeted mostly Shia neighborhoods around the country.
The motorcycle was parked in a second-hand market in the Shia Muslim neighborhood that sells used bikes and was filled with people, mostly young men, when it exploded late Thursday afternoon, killing 31 and wounding 51 others, Iraqi medical and police sources said.
Reuters reported storefront windows were shattered; shoes and motorcycle parts were strewn around the market.
It was unclear who behind the bombing was but violence against Shia Muslims is often blamed on the Sunni Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a group that al-Qaeda central leadership has disowned.
In other violence, Thursday, four people died from bombs on two different mini-buses in Shia sections of Baghdad.
AL JAZEERA | REUTERS | CHOIRUL