DUJAIL, Iraq, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. and Iraqi officials Saturday were investigating a truck bombing north of Baghdad that killed at least 31 people and injured 60 more.
A police officer said the bomb went off near a police station amid a crowded marketplace Friday evening in Dujail, officials told The New York Times. A building that housed several clinics was destroyed and at least 10 vehicles caught fire, the newspaper said.
A doctor told The Washington Post most of the victims were women and children.
Those inside the police station about 100 feet away were unharmed because it is surrounded by blast walls, but many civilians were killed or injured.
The Dujail bombing was Iraq's second of the day Friday. Earlier in Sinjar, also in northern Iraq, two people were killed and 12 wounded by a suicide bomber who detonated explosives outside a Shiite mosque, U.S. officials said.
