Bombing kills 8, injures 10 in northern Iraqi capital

A powerful bombing in the north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least eight people.

A powerful bombing in the north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least eight people.

The bomb attack on Saturday targeted a police checkpoint on a busy street in Kadhimiyah neighborhood of Baghdad, police and hospital officials said. Ten other people were injured.

They added that all those killed were civilians and several police officers were among the wounded. An attacker detonated his explosives at the checkpoint near Aden Square, the officials said.

There has yet to come a claim of responsibility for the attack, which had the hallmarks of similar bombings by Daesh, a Takfiri terrorist group that once controlled territories west and north of Iraq.

Baghdad has seen fewer massive bomb attacks by Daesh since Iraq’s security forces managed to purge the terrorist group from major strongholds late last year. The terrorists used to carry out bombings in crowded places on an almost daily basis last year.