A suicide car bomber killed at least 12 people in an attack at a checkpoint near a police training academy in northeastern Baghdad on Sunday, police and hospital sources said.

They gave death tolls ranging from 12 to 17, while estimates of the number of people wounded varied between 18 and 23.

"I can see body parts scattered on the ground and boots and berets covered with blood. Many cars were set ablaze," said a policeman working at the academy on Palestine Street in northeast Baghdad.

Reuters