A suicide car bomb exploded at a checkpoint manned by Sunni tribesmen in northern Iraq today, wounding four of the men, police said.

A man with explosives hidden under his clothes set them off while standing in a line of job applicants waiting outside a police and army recruitment centre in northern Iraq today, killing 30 people and wounding 35, police said.

Using car bombs and a man with explosives strapped to his body, insurgents killed more than 60 people in three Iraqi cities today, police said.

A MASSIVE car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Fallujah yesterday, killing seven US Marines and wounding several others in the deadliest attack on Americans since May.