At least 60 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in two gun-and-car bomb attacks near the city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq.
On Thursday the attack started with unidentified assailants opening fire inside a restaurant on the main highway that links the capital Baghdad with the southern provinces.
Shortly afterwards, an explosives-laden car targeted a security checkpoint in the same area.
Thi Qar is located about 320km southeast of Baghdad.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group claimed responsibility for the suicide attacks, according to the group's Amaq propaganda website.
Yahya al-Nassiri, the province's governor, told AP news agency the majority of the dead were probably Iranian visitors who were inside the restaurant.