BAGHDAD — A bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded today near a popular cafe in a largely Sunni district of Baghdad killing five people, Iraqi police said.
The blast in Baghdad’s Azamiyah district also injured 16 civilians, an officer at the al-Risafa police station said. Officials at two hospitals that received the wounded said most of the injured were young men.
The police officers and hospital officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Baghdad’s northern Azamiyah district was a Sunni stronghold during sectarian violence in the Iraqi capital in 2006 and 2007. But as in other parts of the city, violence has eased considerably since then and residents have resumed going to sidewalks cafes and dining in riverside restaurants.
Attacks have not halted entirely, however, and militants still strike mosques, markets and symbols of state authority with deadly force.
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