At least 60 people were reported killed and 180 injured when a suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb in central Baghdad's busy Sadriya market Saturday, according to Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa. While Iraqi radio reports spoke of at least 60 dead, US broadcaster CNN quoted security forces as saying as many as 102 people had been killed and 215 wounded. Shops and parked cars were were destroyed by the blast which rocked the working-class quarter that is home to many Shiites and Kurds, the Voices of Iraq news agency said. Earlier, seven bombs were reported to have gone off in the northern city of Kirkuk, plus a car bomb south of Baghdad, while police said over 45 militants were killed in clashes near Suwayrah. At least three civilians were killed and 21 wounded when successive explosions rocked Kirkuk, according to local authorities. A round-the-clock curfew was imposed on Kirkuk following the attacks. Two of the explosions occurred near the Wasiti district mosque, and in Khadra street, districts which are predominantly Shiite and Turkmen. One of the explosions was from a car bomb which went off when police were trying to defuse it. In a car bomb explosion in the Muthana area of Kirkuk, one Iraqi was killed and 17 wounded, police sources said. The car reportedly blew up near the headquarters of the Kurdish Democratic Party. The condition of five of the wounded was said to be serious. The area is largely populated by Kurds and Turkmen. One explosion ripped through a market place, near Kirkuk-Baghdad road. Another occurred near a school, in addition to two other explosions in other locations.
