Routine life in Baghdad, Iraq ! A suicide car bomber has blasted at least 28 people and injured at least 60 gathered for a funeral in a predominantly Shia Muslim district of Baghdad.

Baghdad / NationalTurk – The bomb rigged car blasted in a market place as a funeral procession was passing Baghdad’s Zafaraniya district. The huge explosion claimed at least 28 lives, but the number is expected to raise. Body parts are reported to lie everywhere and giving a accurate number of dead seems an impossible task at the moment, officials state.

A security official told Reuters Agency the bomber had initially attempted to attack a police station.

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Suicide bombings in Iraq, particularly in Baghdad are routine and bomb attacks in Iraq have risen since US troops left the country last month, with 16 people killed in attacks on Thursday.

The suicide attacker struck early Friday as mourners escorted by police cars were transporting the body of a man shot a day earlier for burial, police stated.

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“It was a huge explosion,” Salam Hussein, a 42-year-old grocery store owner, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency. I cannot tell you anythingHussein said – there are only arms and legs one or two decapatitated heads we do not know who they belong to.”

One of Salam Hussein’s employees was hurt and as he took him to hospital, he saw cars engulfed in flames. Where the bomber’s car had exploded, he saw “human flesh scattered around and several mutilated bodies in a pool of blood” the shocked Iraqi added.

Helicopters hovered as security forces cordoned off the site of the explosion, while distraught witnesses screamed in anguish. Outside the hospital, groups of men called out names, searching for missing relatives. Inside, people crowded around medics to ask about their loved ones, who are still in one piece.

One Iraqi nurse said simply: “I cannot tell you anything – there are only arms and legs, we do not know who they belong to.”

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Thirteen people were also killed in bomb attacks on Thursday. Two brothers – both policemen – and at least eight of their relatives were reported to have been killed after insurgents bombed a house in Musayyib in the south of Baghdad.

Three people were also killed in Kirkuk in a separate bomb attack.

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