A vehicle rigged with explosives detonated in the vicinity of a crowded market in Iraq’s town of Tuz Khurmatu, leaving dozens of people dead and wounded, the police stated as cited by Reuters.

At least 20 people were killed and 40 wounded when a truck exploded in an Iraqi town south of oil city Kirkuk, according to police and medical sources, citing by Reuters on Tuesday.

Moreover, an interior ministry spokesman confirmed the fact of a “violent explosion”, but did not immediately provide casualty figures.

Source: Sputnik