Baghdad – October 21, 2014

1. Police vehicles and security troops at blast site, residents walking towards site

2. Police vehicles at scene

3. Charred vehicles and badly damaged building

4. Various of charred vehicles

5. Various of destroyed signage in front of damaged building where restaurant was located

6. Various of residents and security troops at blast site

7. Fire engines driving past

STORYLINE:

Iraqi police said a double car bomb attack hit a restaurant in the Shiite-majority district of Talibiya in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 32 others.

The attack, which hit the Habaybina restaurant in Talibiya, was the deadliest amongst a series of bombings in and around Baghdad on Tuesday.

Earlier, a bomb struck at an outdoor market in the southern district of Abu Dashir, a mostly Shiite neighborhood, killing four people and wounding nine, police officials said.

A little bit later, a bomb that went off in central Baghdad killed five people and wounded 12, police said.

Another bomb exploded at a commercial street in the town of Madian, just south of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding four.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks but they bore the hallmarks of the al-Qaida-breakaway Islamic State group, which has captured large chunks of territory in western and northern Iraq, plunging the country into its worst crisis since US troops left at the end of 2011.