BAGHDAD: A truck bomb ripped through a market in a Shia-majority area of north Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 33 people, security and medical officials said.
The early morning blast in a wholesale vegetable market in the Sadr City area, one of the deadliest single attacks to hit the Iraqi capital in months, also wounded at least 74 people, the officials said.
The bomb went off at around 6:00 am (0300 GMT), peak time for shops buying vegetables for the day.
Medics collected human remains at the scene of the blast.
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The bombing devastated the market, killing horses used to transport vegetables, burning vehicles and leaving produce strewn in the street.
The Baghdad blast came two days after bombings in Diyala province, northeast of the capital, killed more than 30 people.
A massive suicide attack in the province killed more than 120 last month, one of the deadliest single bombings in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion.
