A suicide car bomb attack on a security checkpoint in Kazimiya neighborhood in Baghdad claimed on Tuesday at least 24 martyrs, including MP Ahmad Khafaji, the third deadly bombing in four days, medical sources said.

A suicide car bomb attack on a security checkpoint in Kazimiya neighborhood in Baghdad claimed on Tuesday at least 15 martyrs, including MP Ahmad Khafaji, the third deadly bombing in four days, medical sources said.

Several policemen were also among the dead and the blast also left at least 23 people wounded, a health ministry official and a hospital source said.

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