At least 14 people – including women and children – have been killed by a suicide vehicle bomber at a checkpoint in Iraq.
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Bomb explosions rocked Baghdad as well on Monday, killing at least nine and wounding 26, reported police.
Adi al-Khadran, the representative of Diyala province, told private Al-Sumaria TV that several vehicles had been set ablaze in the blast. In that Karrada attack, a suicide truck drove in to a busy shopping area and killed almost 300 people.
Despite suffering a string of territorial losses, the extremists continue to carry out almost-daily bombings in and around Baghdad as well as complex attacks in other countries.
The bomb-laden truck smashed into a building housing a coffee shop and stores shortly after midnight, when the surrounding streets were packed with people who had been gathering after breaking their Ramadan fasts.
The death toll is expected to rise, said hospital sources.
Iraq has been hit by a new wave of violence since the IS terrorist group took control of parts of the northern and western regions in June 2014.
The blast came a day after a suicide bombing claimed by ISIL, which is also known as ISIS, killed at least 15 people in Baghdad’s Kadhimiyah neighbourhood.
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The Sunni militant group recently stepped up its attacks far from the front lines in what Iraqi officials see as an attempt to distract from its battlefield losses.
