Bombing kills 10 at security check-point south of Baghdad

Baghdad: A suicide driver detonated a car packed with explosives at a security check-point south of Baghdad on Monday, killing 10 people and wounding 25, police and medical sources said.
The blast happened as a convoy of paramilitary fighters drove past the check-point in Yusufiya, 15 kilometres (9 miles) south of the Iraqi capital, the sources said.
It caused casualties among police and army personnel manning the position, as well as fighters and civilians, they said.
The bombing comes as Iraqi forces launched earlier on Monday an offensive on Mosul, the last city that remains under control of IS in Iraq.
The ultra-hardline group intensified bomb attacks in government-held areas this year as it loses territory to US-backed Iraqi government forces and militias.
The group claimed a truck bombing in July that killed at least 324 people in the Karrada shopping area of Baghdad - the deadliest single attack in Iraq since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.