Iraq car bombing kills dozens north of Baghdad

At least 25 people have been killed in a car bomb attack Northeast of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials said. The blast happened in a market in the town of Saadiya, in the religiously mixed province of Diyala, BBC reported. The attack comes a day after at least 29 people were killed and dozens wounded in a series of bombings across the capital. Violence has surged across Iraq in recent months, reaching its highest level since 2008. The bomb went off at about midday (0900 GMT) in a neighborhood populated mostly by Shiite Kurds, officials told the French news agency AFP. Witnesses told police that the bomb was on board a truck of vegetables. According to figures released by the UN at the beginning of this month, a total of 979 Iraqis were killed and another 1,902 were wounded in acts of terrorism and violence in October.