Up to 40 people have been killed in a bomb blast in the northern city of Kirkuk, just hours after US troops withdrew from Iraq's towns and cities.
A further 100 were wounded as the car bomb was detonated in a crowded market in the central Shurga district of the city on Tuesday.
Dr Sabah Mohammed al-Dawoudi, a local doctor, said: "All of the killed and wounded are civilians, among them women, children and men.
"The explosion happened at the peak time for shopping."
The attack came hours after Iraqi forces formally assumed responsibility for the capital, Baghdad, and other cities as the midnight deadline for the US to hand over control passed on Tuesday, six years after US-led coalition forces invaded Iraq.
link: Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Kirkuk bombed amid US pullout
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