[NINANEWS] The Security Media Cell announced the death of 30 citizens and the injury of more than 50 others in the earth-shattering kaboom of Sadr City.
The cell said in a statement: "Yesterday's bombing in Sadr City was carried out by a suicide terrorist wearing an boom belt, killing 30 citizens and wounding more than 50 others."
ISIS Claims Responsibility For Sadr City Bombing
[NINANEWS] Reuters news agency said that ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack that targeted a popular market in Sadr City in Baghdad.
Kadhimi Chairs An Emergency Security Meeting On The Bombing of Sadr City
[NINANEWS] Prime Minister, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Mustafa al-Kadhimi chaired last night an emergency meeting that included military, security and intelligence leaders, against the background of the terrorist attack with the cowardly bombing that took place in Sadr City.
Al-Kadhimi began the meeting, according to a statement by his office, by noting that terrorism had proven their failure to gain a foothold as a result of the blows they received at the hands of our heroic armed forces, so they resorted to a path of meanness and defeat by targeting innocents at random, as the cowards have always condemned.
And he said: I offer my condolences to our sons, our brothers and our people in Sadr City, and let the families of the deaders know that retribution will pursue terrorism in every hole and every hiding place, and the bully boyz will not be safe on the land of Iraq.
He explained that the criminals, with their desperate attempts, wanted to create chaos, after detonating the electric power transmission towers, they went to indiscriminate killing and bombing among the safe people.
Al-Kadhimi directed that any commander or officer who is proven to have failed to perform his duty be held accountable, investigated and referred to the competent court, stressing on our security forces to remain the eye that never sleeps for the security and safety of Iraqis, and to mobilize intelligence work with all its energies, and with precise preemptive strikes, in order that terrorism has no sanctuary or incubator anywhere.
He also directed the redistribution of holding sectors for the security forces in the capital, Baghdad, in a way that increases the readiness of our units and their ability to confront terrorist and criminal schemes.
Al-Kadhimi also directed to provide urgent assistance in all its forms to the families of the victims, and for health personnel to mobilize all their energies in order to treat the injured. 
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