BAGHDAD, July 16 (Xinhuanet) -- At least 60 people were killed and around 80 wounded when a suicide bomber in a fuel truck blew himself up near a gas station in a mainly Shiite town south of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

    The attack occurred in Musayyib, about 90 km south of Baghdad, when the fuel tanker was moving slowly toward the pumps and the attacker detonated his charge, said a police officer.

    Witnesses said the powerful blast caused a firestorm and two nearby residential buildings were completely destroyed along with a number of shops.

    Musayyib is located within the area of "triangle of death" where a lot of killings and explosions occurred.

    Earlier on Saturday, separate bombings killed 15 people, including 3 British soldiers, across Iraq.

    On Friday, insurgents launched a series of suicide bombings that killed dozens of Iraqis, most of them policemen and soldiers.Enditem