Three Iraqi officers were killed and 10 others wounded when two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a police station in western Baghdad, authorities said.
Police said two men wearing suicide vests targeted the al-Entisar police station in the Abu Ghraib district early Thursday.
So far, there have been no claims of responsibility.
Security officials told CNN that a number of terrorists tried to storm the police station around 5 a.m. local time (10 p.m Wednesday ET) in an attempt to seize control of the facility.
The al-Entisar station is a major police facility and located in a relatively active and hostile area, officials said.
The terrorists first sent two suicide bombers and a third armed man to launch their attack, but security forces were able to kill the armed man. However the two others detonated their vests causing multiple casualties.
Deadly 48 hours
This latest attack comes after one of the bloodiest days in the Iraqi capital this year, when more than 90 people were killed in car bombings claimed by the ISIS terror group.
In Wednesday’s violence, 64 people were killed when a car bomb went off at a market in Baghdad, Iraqi police said. An additional 87 people were wounded in the attack in the largely Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City.
Later that day, a suicide bomber detonated in a busy square in the Shiite neighborhood of al-Kadhimiya in Baghdad, killing 17 people, police officials said.
Political risk analyst Kirk Sowell says that the jihadist’s groups tactics are changing as they lose grip on physical territory.
“ISIS has receded somewhat, militarily, they don’t have a … standing army to hold territory,” he says. “But what they’re good at unfortunately is these terrorist attacks against soft targets.
“(Wednesday) was worst than most but in the last few months there’s been this increased focus on terrorist attacks going back to pre-2014 tactics,” Sowell said.