More than 50 people have been killed after a truck bomb exploded in north-eastern Baghdad, Iraqi officials say.
The blast tore through the crowded Jameela market in the predominantly Shia district of Sadr City.
The Sunni jihadist group, Islamic State (IS), said it was behind the bombing and that it targeted Shia militiamen.
It came after a top United States general said it should consider embedding American troops with Iraqi forces if progress was not made in the fight against IS.
Raymond Odierno, the army’s outgoing chief of staff, told reporters that such forces would have a support rather than a combat role.
The U.S has already sent some 3,500 military trainers and advisers to Iraq.
Thursday’s bomb attack in Sadr City was one of the deadliest in the capital since Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi took office a year ago.
A hospital official told the BBC at least 51 people were killed and 75 others injured.
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