AN Australian girl has been killed in a terror attack at an ice-cream parlour in Baghdad.

Zaynb Al Harbeya, 12, was at an ice cream parlour in the Iraqi capital when the car bombing occurred.

Zaynb is understood to be from Thomastown in Melbourne and was in Baghdad visiting her sick grandfather with her parents.

She was in year seven at Sirius College, in Broadmeadows.

The family had been fasting for Ramadan and had just broken their fast.

Zaynb had wanted to go for ice cream at the popular Al-Faqma parlour and was at the counter paying when the blast, for which ISIS has claimed responsibility, occurred around midnight on Tuesday, local time.

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Her funeral will be held today.

Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said her thoughts were with Zaynb’s family.

“I extend our deepest sympathies to her family, her loved ones, her fellow students at Sirius College in Broadmeadows,” Ms Bishop said today.

“This tragedy underscores the brutality of this terrorist organisation.

“It shows no respect for religion, nationality, sovereignty, borders — no respect for humanity.”

Ms Bishop said consular support was being provided to Zaynb’s family.

She confirmed the number of people killed in the car bomb attack had reached 15 with many more injured.

“This is why the Australian Government has continued to commit our defence personnel to support the Iraqi security forces so that they can fight to defeat this terrorist organisation within Iraq and to prevent it’s spread to other parts of the world, including in our region,” Ms Bishop told reporters in Canberra.

Statement from Sirius College where 12 year old Zynab Al Harbiya was a year 7 student. pic.twitter.com/LNV47jNxNC — Sharnelle Vella (@SharnelleVella) May 31, 2017

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The bomber struck just days after the start of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, during which Iraqis often stay out late shopping or socialising after breaking their daily fast.

ISIS issued statements claiming blast at the Al-Faqma ice cream shop and a later attack, saying both were suicide car bombings targeting members of Iraq’s Shiite Muslim majority, whom the group considers heretics.

Haidar Hussein, a 22-year-old who was wounded in the blast, was sitting with friends at a small coffee shop near Al-Faqma.

A police captain tried to prevent a small white pickup truck from approaching the area, but the driver kept going forward and then the truck exploded, Hussein said.

The blast spread rubble everywhere, sparked a fire and threw Hussein to the ground, injuring his arm and leg.

After checking himself for wounds, he began to look for his friends.

“Many people were on the ground, including women and children, and the screams of the women and children got louder,” he said.

Among the dead was Hussein’s 22-year-old friend Karar, who left behind two wives and three children.

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Images posted on social media showed the devastating impact of the attack, which ripped through the crowded area around the ice cream shop in the Karrada district of central Baghdad.

One picture showed

cups of ice cream scattered on the blood-stained ground.

Brett McGurk, the US diplomat coordinating the international coalition fighting IS, condemned the attack and expressed solidarity with Iraq.

“ISIS terrorists tonight in Baghdad target children & families enjoying time together at an ice cream shop. We stand w/Iraq against this evil,” McGurk said on Twitter, using an alternate acronym for IS.

IS overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, but Iraqi forces backed by coalition air strikes have since regained much of the territory they lost and are now fighting to retake the last jihadist-held areas in second city Mosul.

But defeats on the battlefield have not prevented IS from carrying out deadly attacks targeting civilians, including a bombing in Karrada district last year that killed more than 320 people.