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A massive car bomb ripped through a crowd of evening shoppers in a busy Baghdad, killing 51 people and wounding more than 70, the deadliest strike in the Iraqi capital in months.

As US generals pointed to the fragile security gains in Iraq, terrorists sent a pick-up filled with explosives into the mainly Shia area of Hurriyah in northwestern Baghdad in a move designed to reignite the sectarian tensions that once tore the city apart.

Many of those killed were trapped in a burning building that went up in flames when the powerful blast set fire to a generator supplying the area with electricity, witnesses said. Others died when a multistorey building collapsed from the shock of the explosion, which set fire to more than a dozen other buildings.

The explosion, the deadliest in the capital for three months, showed that despite the progress made by the US ‘surge’ and an increased presence of Iraqi armed forces o the streets, bombers are still waiting to strike at any moment. The attack bore the hallmarks of al-Qaeda, who have killed thousands of Shia civilians in bombings so vicious that they eventually turned its local Sunni insurgent allies against it in many parts of the country.

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