At least 175 dead as separate blasts hit Baghdad

At least 175 people were killed and 190 injured following two bombings on Sunday in the Iraqi city of Baghdad, according to Iraqi officials, with one of the attacks claimed by the Islamic State.

The majority of people were killed when a truck filled with explosives was set off in a busy portion of the city as people were breaking fast during one of the final nights of the holy month of Ramadan.

Initial reports placed the death toll at 115, in what Reuters described as the deadliest killing in the capital city this year. More bodies were discovered in the rubble on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 175.

The bomb was set off just after midnight, leaving charred and partially collapsed buildings and a scene of bedlam as emergency workers rushed to pull people from the rubble.

One witness told the Associated Press that the explosion felt “like an earthquake.”

The scene after today's bombing in #Baghdad. Many were angry. One man said "Iraqi people are sheep amongst wolves" pic.twitter.com/EVW9xVRJh7

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Among the dead were 15 children, 10 women and six police officers, the AP reported on Sunday.

“We are in a state of war, and these places are targeted,” said a person identified only as Sami, who was working in a nearby market when the blast occurred.

A separate roadside bomb ignited in a Shiite section of the city killed five people and injured 16, local police told the AP.

Mourners react during a funeral of a victim who was killed in a suicide car bomb in the Karrada shopping area in Baghdad, during the funeral in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq, July 3, 2016. Photo By Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters

Baghdad and its surrounding suburbs have been frequent targets for attacks, spawned by internal sectarian violence in the country between Shiite and Sunnis, along with targeted assaults by ISIS.

Iraqi forces last week wrested control of the city of Fallujah from forces aligned with the Islamic State, a self-proclaimed caliphate who held the city since 2014.

The United States Department of State condemned the attacks while offering support to Iraqi security forces.

“We will continue to unite the world against this evil, remove their safe havens in Syria and Iraq, and uproot their global networks,” spokesperson John Kirby said in a statement. “Our partnership with Iraq and its people, who serve on the front-lines of this global fight, remains steadfast and unwavering.”