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Iraq: At least 30 killed in Kirkuk, Baqouba attacks; Additional bodies found in Baghdad

Violence continued in Iraq Tuesday, as a suicide bomber killed at least 20 people and injured 81 in a market in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a top police officer said.

Also Tuesday, a doctor said the bodies of 13 Iraqi men, several of them beheaded, had been brought to a western Baghdad hospital. Dr. Mohammed Jawad of Yarmouk Hospital said the bodies - either decapitated or shot in the head - were brought to the hospital late Monday from near Khaldiyah, a town 75 miles west of the capital Baghdad

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