Story highlights A U.N. official condemns the attack, predicts "the terrorists will fail"

An explosive-laden truck detonates in a vegetable market

A statement circulated by ISIS supporters claims responsibility for the blast

(CNN) A bomb tore through a crowded vegetable market in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 36 people and seemingly showing ISIS' brutality and reach once again, this time in Iraq's biggest city and capital.

The explosives were packed in a truck that detonated in the Souk Jameela neighborhood in the eastern part of Baghdad.

In addition to the 36 dead, Iraq's Interior Ministry reported 75 wounded from the blast.

The top U.N. official in Iraq , Gyorgy Busztin, gave a higher death toll of 45 people.

"These figures tragically are expected to rise," Busztin said in a news release. "I utterly condemn this heinous and cowardly attack, targeting innocent civilians, many children included, in a public marketplace."

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