Bomber kills 7, wounds 28 in Baghdad

A suicide bomber has blown himself up in a street of Baghdad, killing seven and wounding 28, police sources say.

Source: AAP

 

Sunday's explosion happened in Iskan, a mostly Shi'ite district in the west of the Iraqi capital.

Islamic State has stepped up bomb attacks in government-held areas this year as it loses territory to US-backed Iraqi forces and Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias.

The hardline Sunni group continues to control vast areas in northern and western Iraq, including the city of Mosul, captured in 2014.