At least 28 people were killed and 54 others wounded 
as two bombs exploded in the centre of Baghdad,
 according to police and medical officials.
The blasts, triggered by two suicide bombers, went
 off on Saturday near car spare parts shops in Al Sinak
 during the morning rush, police said.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement 
posted on its Amaq website.
The first blast took place at the market's entrance and the second was inside the area, police said.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
The bombing was carried out by two suicide bombers
 wearing explosive belts, according to Saad Maan, the spokesman for the government security agency. 
"Many of the victims were people from the spare parts 
shops in the area, they were gathered near a cart selling breakfast when the explosions went off," said Ibrahim Mohammed Ali, who owns a nearby shop.
Torn clothes and mangled iron were strewn across the
 ground in pools of blood at the site of the wreckage 
near Rasheed street, one of the main thoroughfares in Baghdad, an AFP news agency photographer said. 
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The market was struck during the early 
morning rush 
In a separate incident, security forces said on Saturday 
that they had foiled a suicide car bombing targeting the mostly Shia district of Kadhimiyah in northern Baghdad.
"Acting on intelligence information, Iraqi forces in 
northern Baghdad tracked down a car bomb with two
 suicide bombers, who planned to detonate it in 
Kadhimiyah," the Baghdad Security Operations said in a statement.
"The forces ambushed the car, blew it up and killed 
the two bombers inside," the security forces said.
Baghdad has been on high alert since October 17, the 
start of Iraq's largest military operation in years to retake ISIL's stronghold of Mosul in the country's north.
ISIL, also known as ISIS, took Mosul in 2014, and has
 launched several attacks in Baghdad in recent months.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had vowed earlier
 in 2016 that his forces would rid the country of ISIL by 
the
 end of the year, but the Mosul operation has been slower moving than expected.
This week he told a televised news conference that Iraqi forces would now require at least another three months.