A doctor told AFP news agency the device had exploded near a funeral procession outside a hospital in the east of the city.

An interior ministry official said a suicide attacker had set off the explosives at 11:00 (08:00 GMT).

Violence in Iraq has fallen in recent years but attacks remain common.

The blast in the Zafraniyah district hit the funeral procession of Mohammed al-Maliki, an estate agent killed along with his wife and son a day earlier in the west Baghdad neighbourhood of Yarmuk, AFP's sources said.

Mr Maliki's body had just been collected and was being taken for burial when the explosion happened.

Details of how he, his wife and son died were not given.

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