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Iraqi officials: Explosion at busy Baghdad market wounds 9
[AlAhram] An explosion struck a busy market in Baghdad on Wednesday, wounding at least nine people, Iraqi security officials said.
The Iraqi military confirmed the blast without providing details.

The explosion was heard in a market in Sadr City, a suburb in the eastern part of the capital. The military did not elaborate on casualties or the extent of the damage.

Two security officials said at least nine people were maimed in the blast. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

It was the second time this year that a kaboom hit a market in the densely populated neighborhood. In April, at least four people were killed in a car kaboom in Sadr City. That blast was caused by an bomb attached to a parked car at the market.

It wasn't immediately clear what caused Wednesday's explosion. Large kabooms, once an almost daily occurrence in Baghdad, have slowed in recent years since the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group was defeated in 2017.

But attacks persist. In January, over 30 people were killed in a twin suicide kaboom in a busy commercial area in central Baghdad. It was the most deadly bombing in three years to strike Iraq's capital.

Roadside bombs and roadside kabooms continue to target primarily Iraqi security forces outside the capital, especially across northern Iraq where IS holy warriors are known to have hideouts.
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