Attack in Diyala province in town populated mostly by Shia Kurds follows day of deadly bombings across the country, SIA reports citing Aljazeera.
A car bomb ripped through a packed food market north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 27 people, as Iraq's death toll for 2013 from a surge in violence nationwide capped 5,800.
The attack occurred on Thursday in Sadiya, 65km northeast of Baghdad, a town in ethnically mixed Diyala province.
The bomb went off at about noon, in a neighbourhood populated mostly by Faylis, or Shia Kurds, the officials said.
Two police officers said witnesses told them that a man parked the truck containing the bomb in the market and asked workers to unload the vegetables before leaving the vehicle. The officers said at least 48 people were also
wounded in the attack.
Two medical officials confirmed the causality figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release information to the media.
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