The toll for a massive suicide car bomb attack carried out by the Islamic State group (ISIS) north of Baghdad rose to 90 dead and 17 missing on Saturday.
The top official in Khan Bani Saad, the predominantly Shiite town 20 kilometres north of Baghdad where the attack occurred on Friday, put the number of wounded at 120.
“The toll so far is 90 martyrs and 120 wounded, and we have between 17 and 20 missing,” Abbas Hadi Saleh said.
He said 15 children were killed in the attack, which ripped through the heart of the town’s market area as people were shopping on the eve of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramzan.