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At least 75 people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew up a lorry loaded with explosives near a Shia mosque in northern Iraq.
About 185 other people were wounded in the explosion, which took place as they were leaving noon prayers in the town of Taza, south of the disputed city of Kirkuk on Saturday, police said.
Brigadier-General Sarhat Qader, a police official, said the mosque and at least 30 houses were demolished in the blast.
Women and children were among the dead in the attack in the predominantly ethnic Turkmen town.
"I saw a truck passing through a very narrow road and, a few minutes later, I heard a huge explosion and the ceiling of my shop collapsed on my head," said Akbar Zain al-Abdin, whose fertilizer and farm products store was almost completely destroyed.
"I didn't see a fire, but I saw a huge cloud of sand in the sky. The victims were our relatives and our friends, their houses collapsed on them."
Residents worked with rescue teams to search for people buried under the rubble.
Justice demanded
The Turkmen Front, Iraq's main Turkmen political party, announced three days of mourning and called for an "immediate investigation ... and for the criminals to be brought to justice".
"The bombing is a big disaster, the criminals and killers chose this time to attack because it is when farmers return home to their houses for lunch," Majeed Azzat, a member of Kirkuk's provincial council, said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Kirkuk is plagued by tensions between its Kurdish, Turkmen and Arab communities, which prevented provincial elections from being held there on January 31.
The attack came just days before US forces withdraw from urban areas on June 30.
Authorities have warned that opposition fighters may step up attacks as the security role is transferred fully to Iraqi personnel in an attempt to dent confidence in them.
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Iraqis search through the wreckage of a truck bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
al-Jazeera
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