At least 30 people have been killed in two separate suicide bomb attacks in Iraq.
In the first incident, at least 20 people were killed and another 60 were injured in a blast in a busy market in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
A senior police officer said the bomber detonated a device after walking up to people shopping at the open-air market in the centre of the town.
In another incident northwest of the capital, Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed ten people and injured seven when he attacked a patrol in Kanaan close to the town of Baquba.
The dead numbered four soldiers, two policemen and four civilians, two of them children according to one report.
The soldiers belonged to a unit that had been called in as reinforcements following an earlier mortar attack.
Also today, the US military said two soldiers were killed yesterday
by a roadside bomb near Ramadi, west of Baghdad.
