A suicide car bomb attack claimed by the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint south of Baghdad Monday (October 17th), killing at least 10 people, AFP reported.
The blast in Yusufiya, a frequently targeted area just south of the capital, also left at least 17 people wounded, an interior ministry official said.
A medic at the nearby Mahmudiyah hospital said at least four soldiers were among those killed in the blast.
ISIL claimed the attack on the checkpoint between Yusufiya and the Baghdad district of Dora in a statement posted on social media and named the bomber as Abu Ishaq al-Iraqi.
Another attack on a funeral tent in Baghdad on Saturday killed at least 36 people. A further two people were killed in a blast in the capital on Sunday.
