Baghdad bombing death toll rises to 281
Iraqi officials have again raised the figure for the number of people killed in Sunday's suicide bombing in Baghdad.
The health ministry said 281 were now known to have died in the attack, which targeted a shopping complex in the mainly Shia Muslim Karrada district.
The previous death toll, announced by the ministry on Tuesday, was 250.
The jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has said it was behind the bombing, the deadliest in the Iraqi capital since the 2003 US-led invasion.
On Thursday, the health ministry raised the death toll from the attack after more of those registered as missing were identified as dead, spokesman Ahmed al-Rudaini told the Reuters news agency.
Hospital and police officials told the Associated Press that the death toll might rise as human remains were still being recovered from the blast site.
More than 200 people were wounded in the attack, 23 of whom are still in hospital.
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