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A suicide bomber blew up a truck near a primary school and police station in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Monday, killing six people, including a baby, a doctor said.

Scores of other people were wounded, many of them pupils at the nearby school, when the explosion ripped through the street in the north Kirkuk district of Rahimawa, said doctor Abdullah Mahmud of Kirkuk General Hospital.

Among the six dead were a baby and a policeman, he added.

The suicide bomber blew up the truck outside the local police criminal investigations department.