Bomber in clothes market pretends to be ill before detonating device as people come to help

Two suicide bombers killed at least 28 people at a Baghdad market on Thursday by luring shoppers towards them before setting off the devices they were carrying.

The strike was the first in the Iraqi capital in three years, provoking fears of a resurgence of the kind of violence that the country endured in the years after the 2003 US invasion and the Islamic State (Isis) era.

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