b_179_129_16777215_00_images_IRQ160615aa001.jpegAt least 115 people were killed Sunday in a suicide bombing in central Baghdad claimed by the Islamic State, the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital in a year and one of the worst in more than a decade of war, officials said.

Among those killed were at least 15 children, 10 women and six policemen when a bomber's pickup truck laden with explosives went off outside a crowded shopping center, wounding 187 other people, police and Iraqi officials said, according to the Associated Press.

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