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    Iraq continues to witness surge of violent attacks

    BAGHDAD, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- A surge of car bombings and shootings on Saturday claimed the lives of more than a hundred Iraqis with several hundreds wounded in the capital Baghdad and left three northern cities under curfew, including the oil rich city of Kirkuk.

    In one of the deadliest single bombing in a busy market in central Baghdad, at least 120 people were killed and some 246 others wounded when a truck bomb went off, a police source said.

    The attack took place an hour or so before the sunset, as an explosive-laden truck loaded with food detonated in the crowded vegetable market of Sadriyah on the east bank of the Tigris River,where was crowded with people buying food for their evening meal, said the source.