Iraqi officials have again raised the figure for the number
of people killed in Sunday’s suicide bombing in Baghdad.
The health ministry said 281 were now known to have died in the attack, which targeted a shopping complex in the mainly Shia Muslim Karrada district, the BBC reports.
The previous death toll, announced by the
ministry on Tuesday, was 250.The health ministry said 281 were now known to have died in the attack, which targeted a shopping complex in the mainly Shia Muslim Karrada district, the BBC reports.
The jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has said it was behind the bombing, the deadliest in the Iraqi capital since the 2003 United States -led invasion.
On Thursday, the health ministry raised the death toll from the attack after more of those registered as missing were identified as dead, spokesman Ahmed al-Rudaini told the Reuters news agency.
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