According to the information of the department, responsibility was assumed by the banned organization "Islamic State".
It is reported that the terrorist attack was carried out by two suicide bombers in two districts in the south of the city.
More than one hundred people are now in critical condition.
The suicide attack was aimed at a specific goal, namely the road used by Shiite pilgrims from Iran and southern Iraq to travel further to the northern cities of Najaf and Karbala.
Earlier, militants conducted an attack on the police station on the highway on the road to Nasiriyah.
As reported in the "URA-Inform", recently the air force of Iraq inflicted air strikes on the positions of the militants of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" in the vicinity of Tel-Afar.