Iraqi Kurdistan shaken by a suicide car bomb

The attack was carried out near the US consulate in Erbil and left at least three dead and several wounded on Friday in the late afternoon.

The attack was claimed by the Islamic State group, according to an Islamist websites surveillance society.

No US or Iraqi national security guard was killed or injured in the attack, said an official with the US State Department.

The last major attack in Irbil occurred in November and had killed five people.

Much further south, in Baghdad, two car bombs claimed by the organization Islamic state left at least 27 dead on Friday, according to police and medical sources.

With Reuters