By IRNA
Baghdad : More than 90 people have been killed by two bombs in Baghdad, attached to two mentally disabled women and detonated remotely.
Brigadier General Qassem Ata al-Moussawi told reporters that the death toll in Friday’s attacks at two animal markets was the highest in months in Baghdad.
The first device was detonated by a female suicide bomber at the popular Ghazil animal market, killing at least 55 people and injuring a further 80.
IRNA reporter in Baghdad said that al-Ghazil animal market is a popular spectacle for Baghdadis.
It only opens on Fridays and regularly draws large crowds, despite having been targeted by bombers twice in 2007.
Just 20 minutes after the first explosion, a second bomb tore through another crowded market in the Jadida area of east Baghdad, killing at least 36 people and injuring 67.
“Forensic and bomb squad experts as well as the people and traders of al-Shorja area of the carpet market have confirmed that the woman who was blown-up there today was often in the area and was mentally disabled.
“In the New Baghdad area the shop owners and customers of the pet market confirmed that the woman who was blown-up there was mentally disabled as well.”
US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, said al-Qaeda had found a different, deadly technique.
“There is nothing they won’t do if they think it will work in creating carnage and the political fallout that comes from that,” he said.