TIKRIT: A car bomb in executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s home city and two other attacks killed eight people, including four police officers, and wounded 14 others on Thursday, police said.
Six people, including three police, were killed by a car bomb that targeted a patrol in the centre of Tikrit, 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Baghdad, said Colonel Hathem Akram, while 11 people, six of them police, were wounded.
A fourth policeman was killed in Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad, by an unknown gunman, local police said.
And in Baghdad a civilian was killed and three others wounded when a magnetic bomb attached to a car exploded, a police official said.
