Baghdad checkpoint hit by deadly car bomb attack Published duration 29 March 2017

At least 15 people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in Iraq's capital Baghdad, officials say.

They say more than 40 people were injured when the bomber detonated the vehicle - an oil tanker laden with explosives - at the checkpoint in the south of the capital.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.

So-called Islamic State has recently carried out similar attacks in Iraq.