The ISIL terrorist group Sunday claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack outside a popular Baghdad restaurant that killed 15 people, including four policemen and a media figure

The ISIL terrorist group Sunday claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack outside a popular Baghdad restaurant that killed 15 people, including four policemen and a media figure.

Saturday's attack, one of the deadliest in the Iraqi capital this year, took place in Karrada, a district packed with shops and restaurants. It was the latest in a series of similar bombings in Baghdad.

It killed 15 people and wounded 51, a police colonel told AFP on Sunday, revising an earlier toll of 14 dead and 39 injured.

ISIL radio said the terrorists carried out the attack. "The soldiers of the caliphate managed to blow up an explosive laden car... in the area of Karrada," it said.

Among those killed was Ammar al-Shahbander, chief of mission in Iraq for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), the interior ministry and two of his friends said.

Shahbander, who was born in 1976 according to his friends, was leaving a cafe in Karrada when the explosion happened, his friends said. A statement by the interior ministry described him as a "martyr of the Iraqi press".