By DPA
Tikrit (Iraq) : At least 31 people were killed and around 100 wounded Tuesday in a wave of violence in war-torn Iraq.
At least 23 people were killed and 77 injured when a suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle near a stall selling gas cylinders in the northern Iraqi town of Bayji, 200 km north of Baghdad, police said.
The suicide bomber detonated his car near a group of people queuing to buy propane gas for cooking.
Another suicide attacker Tuesday morning blew himself up in a mourning procession in al-Mualimeen neighbourhood in Baquba, 60 km north of Baghdad, killing at least four and wounding 20.
Overnight in the capital of Diyala province, two members of the local Awakening Council, a voluntary armed group fighting Al Qaeda affiliated militants, were killed, allegedly by US military fire, police sources said.
In Muqdadiyah another Awakening Council member was killed and two wounded by unidentified militants.
US soldiers had killed a man in an operation in southeast Mosul Tuesday, a senior security official in Nineveh said.