Baghdad, January 27: At least 28 people have been killed and 50 more injured in a car bomb explosion in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, medical sources say.
The blast occurred near a funeral procession outside a hospital in east Baghdad on Friday morning.
An interior ministry official also confirmed the bomb explosion, saying the incident was caused by an attacker driving an explosives-laden car.
The funeral procession was held for Mohammed al-Maliki, a real estate agent who was killed along with his wife and son on Thursday in the west Baghdad neighborhood of Yarmuk.
The procession had collected Maliki’s body and was transporting it for the funeral when the explosion struck.
On Thursday, at least 10 people including women and children were killed in a bomb attack in the city of Mussayib in the central Iraqi province of Babil.
Iraq has witnessed many bomb explosions since the beginning of 2012.
—Agencies