A suicide car bomb targeting a Baghdad police station killed six people on Sunday, the latest in a string of bombings and attacks.

A suicide car bomb targeting a Baghdad police station killed six people on Sunday, the latest in a string of bombings and attacks.

The blast, which struck during morning rush hour in the neighbourhood of Kadhimiyah, went off near a branch of the Istikbarat, a department of the police responsible for intelligence, according to security and medical officials.

Six people were killed, including three of the branch's guards, and 22 others were wounded, the officials said.

Kadhimiyah is home to the shrine to 11th Imam Moussa Al-Kadhim, whose death memory was marked last week, and tens of thousands of pilgrims visited the shrine to pray there.