Iraqi suicide bomber kills 50

A suicide bomber has killed at least 50 people at a restaurant near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.



The authorities say 100 people were also injured in the blast at the Kurdish restaurant, about three miles north of the ethnically mixed city.



Kurdish officials were in the restaurant having lunch with Arab tribal leaders at the time.



The blast came as Muslims celebrated the Eid-al-Adha holiday.



Families were eating lunch in the Abdullah restaurant, located on the main road to Irbil, when it happened.



Officials say a suicide bomber activated an explosives belt in the middle of the restaurant.



A branch of the same restaurant in Kirkuk was hit by a car bomb last year, with 25 people killed.