IS-claimed Baghdad blast kills at least 75 – officials

BAGHDAD: A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 75 people in a Baghdad shopping district in the early hours of Sunday, officials said, the deadliest single attack in the capital this year.

The blast, which ripped through a street in the Karrada area where many people go to shop ahead of the holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, also wounded more than 130 people, security and medical officials said.