Civilian killed, 4 wounded in IED explosion southeast of Baghdad
A man stands at the site of a suicide bomb attack at Nakheel Mall across from the oil ministry, in Baghdad, in Iraq September 10, 2016. (Reuters)
A police source told Alsumaria News that the bomb exploded near a commercial shop in Nahrawan.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the bombing yet, but Islamic State militants have said they were responsible for several bloody explosions that hit the capital in recent weeks.
Violence surged in Iraq with the emergence of Islamic State militants who took over large areas of the country in 2014. Baghdad has been witnessing almost daily bombings targeting civilians and security personnel.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) says violence in the country had left 19000 casualties in nine months of 2016.
Observers believe Islamic State have begun to escalate attacks outside the city of Mosul, where the group has been losing ground and personnel since October, so as to relieve pressure by government forces on that front and to divert attention from group losses.
While losing Mosul could be the severest blow to the Islamic State’s existence in Iraq, some observers believe attacks outside the province prove that the extremist group can still pose a security threat even after the city is recaptured.