Reuters has more on the reports that gunmen have killed people in a Baghdadi shopping mall.
Police sources said that four gunmen charged into the Jawaher mall in the predominately Shi'ite district of Baghdad Jadida, after a car bomb exploded outside, killing seven people were killed and injuring 27 more.
It is not clear if the gunmen have taken hostages of if they have killed anyone inside the mall. The sources said that the gunmen may have been wearing suicide vests.
There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Some reports are saying that the gunmen who stormed a mall in a Shi'ite district of Eastern Baghdad have taken hostages, but that seems to be unconfirmed.
AP and the BBC are also reporting that the gunmen who stormed the shopping mall in eastern Baghdad have taken hostages.
Some 50-75 People Trapped In East Baghdad Mall After Gunmen Storm It
Police and medical officials have told AP that the gunmen who stormed a mall in a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad have taken between 50-75 people hostage.
Ten people have been killed including three police officers. Some 25 people have been injured.
The gunmen set off a car bomb at the entrance to the mall before storming it.
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CNN's Jim Sciutto has this update on the situation in eastern Baghdad, where gunmen stormed a mall.
The Syrian Red Crescent says that aid trucks entered the Syrian towns of Madaya, Foua and Kefraya simultaneously.
That was part of the deal to allow humanitarian aid trucks to enter Madaya.
The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has tweeted this update about the situation in Madaya, Syria, where aid trucks have now entered the town.
AFP is reporting that the gunmen who detonated a car bomb, fired into a crowded area and took hostages in an eastern Baghdadi shopping mall are still holed up in the mall.
"They are inside the Zahrat Baghdad mall. When the security forces got too close, they killed three hostages," a police official said.
"We are taking a cautious approach now. We want this attack to end with the lowest possible number of casualties," the official said.
He described the mall as a building of four or five floors in a busy commercial area of Baghdad al-Jadida, a populous Shi'ite-majority area on the eastern edge of the Iraqi capital.