At least 55 people were killed Sunday in a twin bombing targeting a coffee shop in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police said, dpa reported.
A suicide bomber blew himself up inside the cafe in the mostly Shiite district of Amil in southern Baghdad. Soon afterwards, another bomb went off in the same cafe.
The attack injured at least 45, reported the independent broadcaster Iraqi Alsumaria TV, citing an unnamed security source.
A sharp rise in attacks in recent months has raised fears of a return to the sectarian violence that pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war in 2006-07.
According to UN estimates, 979 people were killed in Iraq in September, making it one of the country's deadliest months in the last five years.