A suicide bomber blew up a car in northern Iraq on Monday, killing two policemen and a woman, and wounding 100 other people, many of them schoolchildren, AFP quoted officials as saying.

A suicide bomber blew up a car in northern Iraq on Monday, killing two policemen and a woman, and wounding 100 other people, many of them schoolchildren, AFP quoted officials as saying.

The attack took place in the town of Dibis, northwest of the ethnically mixed oil city of Kirkuk, district official Abdullah Al-Salehi told the news agency, indicating that “many of the wounded were pupils at an adjacent girls' secondary school.”

The blast hit at around 10:00 am (0700 GMT), a police officer in the city of Kirkuk said.