Suicide truck attack kills 80

The death toll from a suicide truck bombing on the 20th June in northern Iraq has risen to 80. The blast wounded 211 people and destroyed at least 50 buildings near Kirkuk, including shops and houses. It occurred in a busy area near a mosque in the town of Taza, about 10 miles southwest of Kirkuk and 149 miles north of Baghdad. Taza is inhabited predominantly by Shiite Turkmen.