At least 30 people were killed and about 50 others were wounded Monday when an explosive device detonated on the eve of Eid al-Adha in a market in the crowded Sadr City, east of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

A security source and a medical source reported that 28 people, including seven children and eight women, were killed, and 52 wounded, while another security source said that the death toll had reached thirty in the attack, which took place in one of the poorest and most overcrowded suburbs of Baghdad, which is the stronghold of supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr, who has great influence on the political scene in Iraq.

In a statement, the official Security Media Cell described the bombing as a "terrorist" attack and said it was carried out "by a homemade explosive device."

The wounded were taken to nearby hospitals, while the Iraqi Ministry of Health mobilized "all its institutions" to treat the victims, as it said in an official statement. The authorities said in a statement that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, that is, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, had ordered the opening of an investigation into the circumstances of the bombing.

On the other hand, security sources said that the bombing was a suicide, a type of attack usually used by the Islamic State, similar to the attack that took place in central Baghdad in January, which killed 32 people.

At that time, two suicide attacks rocked the Iraqi capital in January, which the organization claimed, in the largest attack in three years in the capital, which has witnessed relative calm since the defeat of the Daesh at the end of 2017.