The incident occurred today, January 13 in the northern part of the Iraqi capital on a busy street near the police station. As a result of detonation of explosives, eight people died, another 20 people received shrapnel wounds and were hospitalized. The suicide bomber also wounded several law enforcers. While no extremist group has claimed responsibility for the attack. However, the law enforcement officer is sure that the militants of the "Islamic state".

The latter took responsibility for numerous bloody terrorist attacks and attacks on police stations during the past year, but recently the security situation in Baghdad has improved due to the expulsion of the militant from the country.

As reported in "URA-Inform", recently in the capital of Afghanistan, a suicide bomber blew up.