A suicide car bomber killed at least 24 people in an attack on a busy market in a town north of Baghdad Tuesday (November 21st), AFP reported.
Dozens more were wounded when the attacker blew up the vehicle in the middle of the fruit and vegetable market in Tuz Khurmatu.
Mayor Adel Shakur al-Bayati said 24 people were killed.
A doctor at the town's general hospital put the number of wounded at 80, some of them lightly injured.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Turkmen MP Niazi Maamar Oglu said an attack of Tuesday's magnitude had not been seen in the town "for years".
A curfew was imposed immediately after the bombing, said Mehdi Taqi, a security chief in Salaheddine province.
