A blast in a market in Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Thursday killed a civilian and injured seven persons, police said.

The detonation hit a popular market in the Domeez area in southern Kirkuk and caused damage to several shops in the area, a police official told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.

Kirkuk is a multi-ethnic city with a population of Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen. It is located some 250 kilometres north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

In separate news, the Baquba public hospital morgue in cooperation with charity organizations buried some 50 unidentified bodies in al-Shareef cemetery in central Baquba, VOI reported.

Over the last couple of weeks, police found these bodies in a state of decay in several places around the province, an unidentified source told VOI.

Baquba is the centre of Diyala province located some 60 kilometres north Baghdad.