Brigadier General Saad Maan said the suicide attack hit a perfume shop in the area, while other officials only said that it targeted a market.
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A police officer says the parked explosives-laden vehicle detonated Monday afternoon in the eastern neighborhood of New Baghdad.
Iraqi passersby stand at the site of a suicide bombing in the Baghdad Jadida area on April 25, 2016. Security has gradually improved in Baghdad, but bomb attacks against the security forces and Shi’ite residential or commercial areas are still a regular occurrence.
Suicide attacks targeting security forces in two Baghdad suburbs have killed and wounded dozens of people on late Saturday officials said.
A medical official confirmed the causality figure.
One of the attacks struck a checkpoint, killing six civilians and four soldiers.
There was no claim of responsibility although Daesh, a Takfiri group which controls territories in west and north of Iraq, has often carried out similar bombings in Baghdad.
At least 11 people have been killed in a major vehicle bomb east of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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The sources spoke to Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity because of restrictions on speaking to the media.
