Mastermind of 2016 bombing that killed 300 arrested, Iraq says

Iraqi women wait to hear about family members who went missing after a bomb hit Karradah, a busy shopping district in the centre of Baghdad, Iraq (Hadi Mizban/AP)

Iraq said it has detained the mastermind behind a deadly 2016 bombing in a Baghdad shopping centre, which killed around 300 people and wounded 250.

The suicide car bombing in the central Karradah district was the deadliest attack by a single bomber in the Iraqi capital after the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.