At least 60 people were killed and dozens injured when an Islamic State suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into a security checkpoint south of Iraq's capital Baghdad on Sunday, reported Reuters. "A martyr's operation with a truck bomb hit the Babylon Ruins checkpoint at the entrance of the city of Hilla, killing and wounding dozens," the terrorist group said in a statement on the Amaq news agency website.

The terror attack in Hillah, located 95 kilometres south of the capital city, claimed lives of eight members of the security force besides civilians, and left up to 70 people wounded. The AP reported that nearly 50 cars got damaged in the explosion. On January 11, at least 18 people were killed in a terror attack at a Baghdad mall. Car bomb explosions killed up to 23 people in eastern Iraq's Muqdadiya later that day. Both the attacks were claimed the IS group of militants. According to United Nations figures, at least 670 Iraqis were killed last month due to ongoing violence, of whom about two-thirds were civilians