Security situation in Iraq

Five persons belonging to the People's army were killed and 17 others injured Friday in a suicide bombing in northern Baghdad.

Iraqi police said in a statement that a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up inside a restaurant in Al Mushahada area in northern Baghdad, while elements of the people's army were in the restaurant, killing five of them and wounding 17 others.

Meanwhile, a security source in the Anbar province said 17 people, including 5 civilians, were killed and 40 others, including security men, were injured in two car bomb explosions in Al-Bufarraj area, north of Ramadi.

In another incident, the motorcade of the Anbar Police Commander Kazim Al-Fahdawi was attacked by a car bomb in northern Ramadi Friday.

Also in Anbar, a security source announced that Daesh organization executed 7 children, 6 women and two elderly men in Al-Bufarraj area in northern Ramadi. The source said Daesh committed this crime because they provided food to security forces.

In the same context, two people were killed and 12 others wounded in a car bombing in the Karrada district of central Baghdad.

According to a military intelligence source 14 people, planning for terrorist activities in Baghdad, were arrested.