As many as 28 people were killed after a roadside bomb exploded in a busy market of Sadr City, a Baghdad suburb on Monday.
The explosion occurred at the al-Howeilat market in a Shiite suburb of the city and stronghold of local Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr.
Among the dead are four children and four women, according to a source at the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack which occurred on the eve of Aid al-Adha, the festival of sacrifice in Islam.
As many as 28 people were killed after a roadside bomb exploded in a busy market of Sadr City, a Baghdad suburb on Monday.
The explosion occurred at the al-Howeilat market in a Shiite suburb of the city and stronghold of local Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr.
Among the dead are four children and four women, according to a source at the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack which occurred on the eve of Aid al-Adha, the festival of sacrifice in Islam.
As many as 28 people were killed after a roadside bomb exploded in a busy market of Sadr City, a Baghdad suburb on Monday.
The explosion occurred at the al-Howeilat market in a Shiite suburb of the city and stronghold of local Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr.
Among the dead are four children and four women, according to a source at the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack which occurred on the eve of Aid al-Adha, the festival of sacrifice in Islam.