Baghdad: At least 80 people were killed and 31 others wounded on Thursday in a suicide bomb attack at a fuel station in Babil province of Baghdad, a security official said.

"The attack occurred in the afternoon when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden tanker truck at a fuel station in Hillah, some 100 km south of Baghdad," Xinhua news agency quoted head of the security committee of Babil Falah al-Khafaji as saying.