05/09/2014 10:20
Iraq crisis: Two bombs kill at least 20 in Baghdad
More than 20 people were killed and dozens injured after two bombs went off in Iraq's capital Baghdad on Thursday, the BBC reported.
A car bomb in Kadhamiya, a mainly Shia area that has seen several attacks in recent days, killed at least 11.
Separately, a suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a police checkpoint in central Baghdad, killing nine people.
Sectarian tension has been rising in Iraq in recent months amid political chaos and an Islamic State offensive.
Last week, a car bomb in the mainly Shia neighbourhood of Jadida killed at least eight and wound about 20 others. There was also an attack on a Shia mosque.
The spate of attacks on Shia came after at least 68 people were shot dead at a Sunni mosque earlier in August, in a mass shooting blamed on Shia militia.