Suicide attack kills at least five in Baghdad

A suicide blast killed five people and wounded 20 others near an Interior Ministry building in central Baghdad on Tuesday, Iraqi police said.

A suicide blast killed five people and wounded 20 others near an Interior Ministry building in central Baghdad on Tuesday, Iraqi police said.

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At least three of those killed in the attack outside a ministry forensics office were police, and the building suffered major damage.

The attack came a day after a trio of suicide attacks on well-known Baghdad hotels, two of them hubs for western visitors and journalists in Iraq, killed at least 36 people.