An evening suicide bombing in a commercial area in a city northeast of Baghdad killed at least 13 people, Iraqi officials said Tuesday. The bomber blew up his explosives-laden minibus shortly before sunset Monday near a bakery and a falafel restaurant in a Shiite neighborhood of the city of Baqouba, a police officer said. The explosion in the neighborhood of Shifta also wounded at least 60 others, he added. Baqouba, the provincial capital of Iraq's Diyala province, is 35 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad. A medical official confirmed casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren't authorized to release the information. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it bore the hallmarks of ISIS, which controls large stretches of territory in the country's west and north, as well as Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul. ISIS has claimed responsibility for deadly attacks in Shiite sections of Diyala in the past months. In February, the province was the scene of one of the area's deadliest attacks, when an ISIS-affiliated suicide bomber struck mourners in a crowded funeral reception hall, killing up to 40 people and wounding dozens.
