Deadly bombing at Baghdad cafe
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Two bombs exploded outside a cafe in Baghdad on Monday (November 25), killing 17 people and wounding 37, police and medical sources said.
The blast was the latest in a series of attacks on the few social meeting places left open in the Iraqi capital.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast in the mainly Shi'ite Muslim eastern district of Sadriya.
The blast damaged the cafe and the surrounding marketplace.
Sunni Muslim insurgents, some linked to al Qaeda, have regularly bombed cafes, restaurants and sports matches since the start of 2013, the country's worst spate of violence in five years.
It was the third attack reported around Baghdad on Monday.
Two bombs exploded outside a cafe in Baghdad on Monday (November 25), killing 17 people and wounding 37, police and medical sources said.
The blast was the latest in a series of attacks on the few social meeting places left open in the Iraqi capital.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast in the mainly Shi'ite Muslim eastern district of Sadriya.
The blast damaged the cafe and the surrounding marketplace.
Sunni Muslim insurgents, some linked to al Qaeda, have regularly bombed cafes, restaurants and sports matches since the start of 2013, the country's worst spate of violence in five years.
It was the third attack reported around Baghdad on Monday.