Two bombings claimed by the Islamic State group struck a Shiite area of northern Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 22 people, security and medical officials said.
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The blasts in the Sadr City area, at least one of which was a suicide bombing, also wounds at least 55 people.
Sunday’s twin bombings come shortly after a spate of attacks carried out by Daesh terrorists in the city of Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Sadr strike, but the suicide blasts match the pattern employed by the Sunni-dominated ‘IS.’
An anonymous security source told Kurdish news site Rudaw that the militants “launched a surprise attack targeting a police station outside Abu Ghraib”.
In the town of Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, three shoppers were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb explosion, another police officer said.
According to police sources, the first explosion took place when a bomber detonated his vest inside the mosque in the Shia-populated Shulaa neighborhood of the Iraqi capital on Thursday evening.
The western suburb of Baghdad has recently been the scene of numerous militant attacks, which have inflicted heavy damage on the area.
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Earlier, officials said that Iraqi security forces had repelled an attack by IS fighters near the western suburb of Abu Ghraib. At least 12 members of government and paramilitary security forces were killed and 35 wounded, they added. Citing the unstable security situation in the surrounding area, Iraqi authorities closed the prison in April 2014.
