At least one civilian was killed Thursday, April 15 in an explosion in Sadr city, a very densely populated district and Shiite stronghold in eastern Baghdad, the Iraqi army reported, without mentioning the causes or the perpetrators.
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The Iraqi authorities are generally quick to denounce "
terrorist
"
acts
, the term used to designate the Islamic State (IS) group which still has cells in Iraq.
But they do not qualify this time around the explosion, nor do they specify whether it was the result of a bomb or a car bomb, as information shared on social media suggested.
According to the Iraqi military command, in addition to the civilian killed, 12 others were injured.
In Sadr city, at the scene of the explosion, a busy flea market, motorcycles and half a dozen charred cars were lying, an AFP photographer noted.
Dozens of police and soldiers were deployed and blocked the main road leading to the lively neighborhood, a stronghold of the Shiites, hated by the ultra-radical Sunnis of the IS.
