Three blasts killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 50 in predominantly Shi’ite Muslim districts of Baghdad on Tuesday, police and medical sources said.
A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in a commercial street in the eastern Baghdad al-Jadida area of the Iraqi capital, killing nine people and wounding more than 30, they said, reports Reuters.
Another suicide attack hit a commercial street of Bayaa in western Baghdad, killing six and wounding 22, the sources said.
A roadside bomb exploded near a gathering of cattle herders and merchants in al-Radhwaniya, also in western Baghdad, killing two people, they said.
Iraqi security forces gather at the site of a suicide bomb blast in Baghdad al-Jadida, Iraq
Islamic State claimed the two suicide attacks but did not mention the third assault. The hardline Sunni Muslim group has intensified bomb attacks in government-held areas this year as it loses territory to U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces and Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias.
The group claimed a truck bombing in July that killed at least 324 people in the Karrada shopping area of Baghdad – the deadliest single attack in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
The group continues to control vast areas in northern and western Iraq, including the city of Mosul, captured in 2014.
