A suicide truck bomber detonated in a commercial section in the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk, killing at least 65 people, an Iraqi army spokesman says. Maj. Gen. Anwar Mohammed Amin said 170 people were wounded in the attacks Monday afternoon.Video from the scene showed a large crater surrounded by dozens of mutilated bodies, some of them still on a bus.
A Kirkuk police official said in addition to the truck bomb, a car bomb also detonated in Kirkuk's al-Qalah neighborhood.
Kirkuk is an oil rich city about 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Baghdad.
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