{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 authorised to release information to the media.
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The blast in Sadiya struck a day after violence across Iraq, including a spate of bombings in Baghdad , killed 59 people and left more than 100 wounded, the latest in a protracted surge in violence nationwide.
Aljazeera
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