Suicide bomber kills 6 in central Baghdad

At least 12 others were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a minibus in the central district of Karrada.

Six people were killed and 12 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a minibus in the central Baghdad district of Karrada on Thursday, police said.

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Details were sketchy but police said the death toll could rise.

Separately a mortar barrage hit the northern Baghdad Sunni district of Adhamiya, killing one person and wounding nine, police said.