A car bomb has torn through a cafe packed with young men watching a football match in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at least 16 people.
Nobody's claimed responsibility for the attack which struck a Shi'ite enclave in a mainly Sunni neighbourhood in the former insurgent stronghold of Dora.
The device was believed to be a car bomb. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.
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A further 27 people were wounded in the blast.
Meanwhile, a senior official in the trade ministry narrowly escaped assassination, but was badly wounded, and his driver was shot dead in an attack Tuesday morning, the official said.
A roadside bomb targeting a vehicle carrying Hassan Ismail, a director general in the ministry, exploded in south Baghdad Tuesday morning, at which point a group of gunmen opened fire on Ismail's car.
Another person was also badly wounded.
Also in south Baghdad, an employee of the capital's municipal government, Basma Fattah, was killed by a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to her car, according to the interior ministry official.
Two other roadside bombs in Baghdad wounded four people in separate incidents.
And in the main northern city of Mosul, police Colonel Eid Names al-Juburi was killed and four of his bodyguards wounded when a bomb targeting his convoy exploded, a police lieutenant said.
