Bombings in Baghdad

Updated July 3 at 12:15 p.m. EST

At least 115 people were killed and scores wounded in two bombings in Baghdad Sunday.

The first attack occurred in the central Karrada district of Baghdad outside a crowded shopping center, the AP reported. A suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a pickup truck in front of the building, killing dozens and wounding as many as 170. At least 15 of the fatalities were children. Photos from the scene showed the charred remains of the building, its front blown out, and the street in front of it. Some people remain missing.

More details of the attack from the AP:

The suicide bomber struck shortly after midnight, when families and young people were out on the streets after breaking their daylight fast for the holy month of Ramadan. Most of the victims were inside a multi-story shopping and amusement mall, where dozens burned to death or suffocated, officials said.

The Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement circulated online, Reuters reported Sunday.

The second attack occurred in Baghdad’s northern Shaab area, when an improvised explosive device detonated, killing five people and wounding 16 others. No group said it was responsible, but ISIS is suspected.

The attack comes days after ISIS militants stormed a restaurant in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and killed 20 people, mostly foreign nationals. And it comes one week after the Iraqi military declared the city of Fallujah, located about 50 kilometers, or 30 miles, west of Baghdad, “fully liberated” from ISIS after a weeks-long military offensive. Fallujah was the first Iraqi city to fall to ISIS in early 2014. At the end of that year, the militant group controlled about one-third of the country, but by 2016 had lost significant territory.