Iraqi police killed by car bomb in Tikrit [View All]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/611D1B34-9F42-4EB9-93AD-522C6855C9E7.htm

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"Six Iraqi policemen have been killed in a car bomb blast in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, in northern Iraq, the US military says.
Aljazeera reported the bomb exploded in front of Iraqi police headquarters in Tikrit city, which lies 175km north of Baghdad.

"At approximately 9.30am (0630 GMT) on 11 January in northern Tikrit, anti-Iraqi forces detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device in the vicinity of a police station, killing six Iraqi police," the US military said in a statement.

Iraqi journalist Muhammad al-Badri told Aljazeera the booby-trapped car was parked at the side of the road leading to the police headquarters."

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"The attack came a day after Baghdad's deputy police chief, Amir Nayif, was assassinated, in one of a string of deadly attacks against Iraqi security forces in the run-up to the planned 30 January elections."