Separate bombings kill 10 in Baghdad

Tikrit, located 160 kilometres (100 miles) north of Baghdad, was the second city to fall to IS in 2014 as the jihadists swept through large areas north and west of the capital. (PHOTO: AFP

Separate bombings in the Iraqi capital killed 10 people and wounded another 22 yesterday, according to Iraqi officials.

The Baghdad attacks mainly targeted civilians and though there was no immediate claim of responsibility, they bore all the hallmarks of the Islamic State group in what are apparently efforts by militants to distract from the Iraqi forces’ major offensive in the northern city of Mosul.