Iraq Restaurant Bomb Kills 55: Police

At least 45 people were killed and 93 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a
restaurant near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. (AFP Graphic)

From Yahoo News/AFP:

KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) – At least 45 people were killed and 93 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a restaurant near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday, the city's deputy police chief Torhane Yussef said.

Women and children were among the victims of the attack on the "Abdullah" restaurant, an interior ministry official in Baghdad said.

The blast happened in the early afternoon on the final day of the Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) holiday at a roadside restaurant 15 kilometres (nine miles) north of Kirkuk and 255 kilometres (160 miles) from Baghdad, police officer Salam Zengana told AFP.

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