A DOUBLE suicide bombing on a crowded market in Iraq’s capital killed at least 38 and injured more than 100 today.

The two bombers struck one after another in Baghdad’s central Tayran Square, where day-labourers gather to find work.

Shoes could be seen scattered about on the blood-stained pavement as cleaners hurried to clear the debris. Photographs posted online showed lifeless bodies and fragments of limbs.

Iraqi parliament speaker Salim al-Jabouri denounced the attack as a “cowardly act against innocent people” and called on the government to take all necessary security measures.

While no immediate claim of responsibility was received, witnesses blamed the atrocity on Isis, whose defeat the government declared last month.

Stallholder Munthir Falah blamed the security forces for failing to secure the capital against the remnants of Isis — bent on revenge for the loss of their self-proclaimed capital Mosul last year.

“They think that [Isis] is done with the territorial losses and they do not bother themselves to exert efforts to secure Baghdad,” he said.