At least 30 people died and another 50 were hurt Sunday in a bombing for a funeral for a Kurdish official in northern Iraq.

A Kurdish official said a car packed with explosives was detonated inside a tent where the funeral was being held.

“Terrorists continue to target and disregard the safety of innocent citizens,” the U.S. military said.

Officials in Iraq say militants unleashed a barrage of ambushes, bombings and drive-by shootings Sunday.

They say at least ten people have been killed in the attacks.

One of the deaths occurred when two roadside bombs detonated near a small amusement park in central Baghdad.

Another strike occurred in Baghdad where a car bombing killed four civilians and wounded 12 others.

Five police officers were killed in an ambush on a checkpoint in the capital.

Officials say other attacks have taken place in Baghdad and in a city south of the capital.

This is the third consecutive day of intense militant attacks, and at least 79 people have been killed.

Meanwhile new videotape shows Iraqi militants holding an Australian man who pleads for U. S.-led coalition forces to leave Iraq in order to save his life.

The tape shows a man identifying himself as Douglas Wood seated between two masked men pointing automatic weapons at him.

The video also shows a sign of the militant group responsible for the kidnapping.

That group has previously claimed responsibility for attacks on U.S. soldiers and Iraqi forces.

Wood says on the tape that he lives in California and appealed to President Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Australian Prime Minister John Howard to take forces out of Iraq.

Wood is married to an American, who says the man on her tape is her husband.

Pearl Wood told The Associated Press her husband has been in Iraq about a year and a-half, working as an engineer.

A disheveled and shaken Wood says that his "captors are fiercely patriotic" and that he doesn't want to die.

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