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| A car bomb in a Shia district of Baghdad has killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 60 others, Iraqi police and hospital sources say. | |
| The SUV packed with explosives exploded near a beauty salon in a bustling market at rush hour in the Sadr City district. Most of the victims were women and many of the wounded were in critical condition, the sources said. | |
| Related: Mosul: suspicion and hostility cloud fight to recapture Iraqi city from Isis | |
| Islamic State claimed responsibility. The ultra-hardline Sunni jihadi group, which considers Shias apostates, also said it had carried out a twin suicide bombing in Sadr City in February that killed 70 people. | |
| Security has gradually improved in Baghdad, which was the target of daily bombings a decade ago, but violence directed against both the security forces and civilians is still frequent and sometimes leads to reprisal attacks. | Security has gradually improved in Baghdad, which was the target of daily bombings a decade ago, but violence directed against both the security forces and civilians is still frequent and sometimes leads to reprisal attacks. |
| The fight against Isis has exacerbated a long-running sectarian conflict in Iraq, mostly between the Shia majority and Sunni minority. | |
| Sectarian violence also threatens to undermine US-backed efforts to dislodge the militant group from vast areas of the north and west of Iraq that it seized in 2014. |