The center of the Iraqi capital was shaken Thursday, January 21, by a suicide bombing.
The attack left at least seven dead and around 20 injured, according to police and medical sources cited by the Reuters news agency.
The attack took place in Tayaran Square, a busy crossroads in Baghdad.
A suicide attack on the same square left 31 dead three years ago almost to the day.
As in 2018, this attack comes as the authorities discuss the organization of a legislative election, a deadline regularly accompanied by violence in Iraq.
Immediately after the explosion, heard throughout the center of Baghdad, AFP journalists saw numerous ambulances pouring in to the site of the attack.
The attack was not immediately claimed, but this modus operandi has been used in the past by the Islamic State (IS) group, which occupied nearly a third of Iraq in 2014, before Baghdad declares to have won his war against the jihadists at the end of 2017.
With AFP
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