BAGHDAD, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Up to 126 people were killed and some 152 others wounded in bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said.
This is the bloodiest attack this year in the country where the army are fighting against the Islamic State militants.
The busy commercial district in southern Baghdad was hit by a car bomb at about 1:00 a.m. local time (2200GMT) when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden pickup truck outside a shopping center.
The three-floor building was completely destroyed, when lots of people were in it. Many of the victims are women and children, the source said.
The powerful blast set fire to the shopping center and four nearby buildings while many shops and stalls were charred and destroyed, along with destroying dozens of civilian vehicles at the scene, the source added.
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