BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide car bomber targeting a busy market in a northern Iraqi village killed at least 117 people Saturday morning, a government official told CNN.
A truck laden with 2 tons of explosives detonated in an outdoor market in Amerli. The truck resembled an Iraqi military truck, according to an official at the Joint Coordination Center in the city of Tuz Khurmatu.
Amerli is a village predominantly populated by Shiite Turkmens and Kurds, about 100 miles north of Baghdad in Salaheddin province, near Tuz Khurmatu.
Some 265 people were wounded and at least 12 houses were badly damaged.
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Tragic isn't it?
It was just yesterday that Lindsey Graham said, “The military part of the surge is working beyond my expectations,” Graham said. “We literally have the enemy on the run.
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