At least 66 people have been killed by a massive ISIS-claimed truck bombing at a market in the Shiite Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, the New York Times reports. (ISIS is a Sunni group.) From the newspaper:
The explosives were apparently hidden in the truck, which was loaded with fruit and vegetables, witnesses said. Blood covered the ground, and clothing and slippers, apparently from the victims, were scattered over a wide area of the market. At least 30 shops were damaged, and as many as 20 cars were burned or destroyed.
It’s the third major deadly bombing in Sadr City since last summer—further proof that ISIS, though it’s been gradually losing territory, can still inflict major damage on Iraq’s capital. The Iraqi government, meanwhile, is “effectively paralysed by factional dispute,” the BBC writes.
The man who had been driving the truck that exploded parked it and walked away before the blast, reports say.