A series of car bomb attacks targeting commercial areas and a restaurant killed at least 15 people in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad.
Police officials said a car bomb went off in a commercial street in al-Ameen district in south-eastern Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 13.
Minutes later, police said another car bomb explosion near a falafel restaurant killed three people and wounded six in the capital’s Qahira neighbourhood.
A third car bomb exploded in a commercial street in western Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 14 others, police said.
Later, a car bomb in a commercial area of Baghdad’s northwestern neighbourhood of Shula killed four people and wounded nine, police said.
Health officials confirmed the casualty figures.