Some20 people were killed and 50 others wounded after a bomber detonated his explosives-filled vest inside a cafeinMuqdadiya,80kmnortheast of Baghdad,on Monday, security and medical sources said.
As medics and civilians gathered at the site of the first blast an explosive-laden carparked outside the cafe exploded.
Earlier, ahostage taking attack was carried outby Daesh Takfiri terroristsin the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Security sources said gunmen opened fire in a crowded shopping mall in eastern Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 18, four of them policeforces, and taking some others hostage.
A police official said the gunmen had holed up in a mall in the al-Jadida area.
"When the security forces got too close, they killed three hostages," a police official said.
Iraqi state television said the rest of the hostages had beenfreed. Two of the hostage takers were killed while four were arrested.
Iraqi media said that an initial car bombing in front of the mall caused somefatalities, adding that at least 50 people were injured in the attacks. They said police and security forces encircled the mall and shooting was heard from the place.
An Interior Ministry source said gunmen opened fire in the street after acar bomb explosionand briefly clashed with members of the security forces before entering the mall, a building of four or five floors in a busy commercial area of Baghdad.
Meanwhile, in a separate bombing in crowded marketplace in the Nahrawan district southeast Baghdad sevenpeople were killed and 15injured.
The Takfiri groupDaesh, which controls areas in northern and western Iraq, hascarried numerous attacksin the country. Daeshhas suffered back-to-back defeats over the past weeks to the Iraqi military and allied volunteer fighters, chief among the setbacks being the militants' lossof control ofAnbars provincial capital of Ramadi, around 100 kilometers west of Baghdad.
By Press TV
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