ISIS kills 120, wounds 140 with holiday bomb.
People used vegetable boxes to collect children’s body parts.
- Ramadan is an important Islamic holiday & lasts for 1 month.
- Muslims don’t eat or drink from sunrise to sunset that month.
- Ramadan marks the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad.
- A huge festival called Eid al-Fitr celebrates the end of Ramadan.
- This year, Eid al-Fitr happened last Friday, July 17.
- That night, ISIS (Sunni) drove an ice truck into an Iraqi market.
- Posing as a merchant, the ISIS operative offered discounted ice.
- Even after sunset, the temperature was still 95° F (35° C).
- Crowds flocked to the truck which hid over 1 ton of explosives.
- The blast killed 120 & wounded 140. More deaths are expected.