At least eight people were killed and 37 others wounded Monday in a suicide attack in southeast Baghdad, a local security official said.

Two militants armed with explosive belts and guns attacked the Nahrawan Health Center in Baghdad and opened fire at civilians, an Interior Ministry official told Xinhua.

Security guards in the health center exchanged fire with the attackers and killed one of them. The other one rushed into a nearby coffee shop and detonated his explosive belt.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Islamic State (IS) group, in most cases, is responsible for such suicide bombings which usually targeted security forces or crowded areas like markets, cafes and mosques.

Iraqi forces liberated the last IS urban stronghold in Rawa, Anbar province on Nov. 17 and are still carrying out military operations to wipe out remaining IS militants from their hideouts in the desert in western Iraq.

source: Xinhua