Horrific video shows inferno ripping through shopping centre moments after ISIS truck bomber struck in Baghdad, killing 150 people
The bombing in the Karrada area of the Iraqi capital is one of the worst in the war-torn country’s history.
Horrifying footage shows fire ripping through a huge shopping district in Baghdad following an ISIS suicide bomb attack.
The shocking video shows Iraqi civilians watching helplessly as innocent people burn alive in the deadly blaze.
Terror group ISIS has claimed responsibility for the atrocity which has so far claimed the lives of 150 people and wounding 200 more.
The senseless attack was carried out on Saturday evening when a refrigerator truck packed with explosives blew up in the crowded Karrada area of Baghdad.
Brain-washed suicide bombers deliberately set off the explosives when people were out celebrating the holy month of Ramadan.
Thirty-five people are still reported missing following the tragic assault.
The Karrada attack is one of the single biggest bombings in Iraqi history.
There was another explosion on the same night, when a roadside bomb blew up in the popular market of al-Shaab, a Shi'ite district in north Baghdad, killing two people.
Over the past year, Iraqi forces have racked up territorial gains against ISIS, retaking the city of Ramadi and the towns of Hit and Rutba, all in Iraq’s vast Anbar province west of Baghdad.
But despite the government’s battlefield victories, ISIS has repeatedly shown it remains capable of launching attacks far from the front-lines.
ISIS still controls Iraq's second largest city of Mosul as well as significant patches of territory in the country's north and west.
At the height of the extremist group's power in 2014, ISIS rendered nearly a third of the country out of government control. Now, the militants are estimated to control only 14 percent of Iraqi territory, the government claims.
The attacks also come just a day after ISIS jihadis killed at least 20 foreigners at a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The militants, most of whom were killed in an ensuing police raid, stabbed to death hostages who could not recite verses from the Koran, it was claimed.
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