[Bouncr: 3v394] Car Bombing Leaves At Least 21 People Dead In Iraq

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the bombing of an open-air market in the capital of Baghdad.

Shiite pilgrims march toward the Imam Mousa al-Kadhim.

Ali Abdul Hassan / AP

Another 42 people were injured when the car exploded near Shiite civilians shopping in an open-air market, Iraq's Interior Ministry confirmed to the Associated Press.

Shortly after the attack, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted to an affiliated website.

The ISIS statement and first reports from local authorities reported the bombing had targeted Shiite pilgrims walking to Baghdad's holy Kadhimiyah shrine.

But Brig. Gen. Saad Mann, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry and Baghdad Operations Command, told AP it was a market that was attacked.

"It was not a road for people walking toward Kadhimiyah," he said.

Thousands of Shiite pilgrims travel on foot to the shrine each year. The pilgrimage has been targeted by attackers in the past.

Scores of people have been killed in large bombings in Baghdad in recent months. On March 25 an ISIS-claimed suicide bombing at a stadium kil led 29 and wounded 60, many of them children.

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