At least 18 people are thought to have been killed and over 90 wounded after an explosion at Baghdad’s Sadr City district mosque. (Euronews)
While initial reports pointed to a terrorist attack but later the Interior Ministry said the blast had been a detonation at an army weapons depot. It’s not clear how it occurred or whether it was deliberate or not.
Sadr City is a stronghold of nationalist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose political bloc won a May 12 parliamentary election. Parliament yesterday ordered a national recount of votes.
