Funerals have been held for many of the victims of a twin bombing in a crowded Baghdad shopping district that killed at least 68 people.

The funerals were held on Friday in the primarily Shia, middle-class Baghdad neighborhood of Karradah, where the back-to-back attacks took place.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack on Thursday, but police said it was designed to hit as many people as possible.

Thursday’s blast has killed a total of 68 people so far and injured 120. The first blast, a roadside bomb, went off as streets were packed with vendors and shoppers. The second larger blast occurred minutes later as Iraqi security forces and civilians rushed in to help the injured. The second blast is believed to have been a suicide bomber.

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