At least 20 people died and 76 were wounded on Thursday in
several attacks in northern Iraq, police told Efe.  Seven people
died and 45 were wounded in a triple-explosion near a market in
the town of Al Tuz, 210 kilometers (130 miles) north of Baghdad.
First, a suicide bomber detonated the explosive-laden belt he
was wearing and two car bombs exploded nearby moments later.
Four people, including a police officer, were killed and 18 were
wounded when two vehicles blew up in the town of Yadidat al
Shat, north of Baquba, the capital of the eastern province of
Diyala.  Another car bomb exploded near a grocery store in the
town of Al Maqdadiya, 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of
Baquba, killing three people and wounding eight.  Meanwhile, at
least three soldiers died and three others were wounded in
Badush, to the west of the northern city of Mosul, when another
car bomb exploded.  A soldier died and two others were wounded
in another attack near Mosul.  A member of a pro-government
Sunni tribal militia group