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Car bomb in Tikrit kills 10, wounds 25
A suspected suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle at a police station in the northern Iraq city of Tikrit on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 25, police and hospital officials said.
Police captain Husam Musseyif said a car driven by a man wearing a police uniform tried to enter the police station compound and then detonated when the man was challenged.
A local hospital official, Imad al-Jabouri, confirmed the death toll and said the numbers could rise.
Musseyif said the toll was high because the police were going through a shift rotation and a large part of the force was in the police compound at the time.
Tikrit, 110 miles north of Baghdad near the Tigris river, was Saddam Hussein's hometown.
Insurgents have frequently attacked local police, other Iraqi security forces and U.S. troops in and around the town, although the number of attacks had declined in recent months. |
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![An Iraqi man shows his identification card to Iraqi Intervention Force Soldiers, who are conducting a cordon and search operation in the northern city of Mosul, in this photograph handed out on February 23, 2005. A suspected suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle at a police station in the northern Iraq city of Tikrit on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 25, police and hospital officials said. [Reuters]](xin_54020224170575725101.jpg)
