Tuesday, January 18, 2011

42 dead in suicide attack on Tikrit and a hundred injured

BAGHDAD - A suicide attack against police in Tikrit, northern Iraq has killed at least 42 people dead and at least one hundred injured. The sources said Iraqi police. According to reports from the Arabic television Al-Jazeera, the suicide bomber struck a center for volunteers wishing to join the Army.

The attack was executed at 10:30 am local time (8:30 in Italy) in the headquarters of the police in Tikrit, hometown of the late former President Saddam Hussein, about 160 km north of Baghdad. There are no claims, but security sources tend to attribute responsibility for the attack to the Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda.

"Who else could it be but Al Qaeda, which continues to massacre - said Ahmed Abdul-Jabbar, deputy governor of Salahuddin province -. They are the terrorists." According to the correspondent of Al-Jazeera, a man wearing an explosives belt, entered into a recruitment center of the security forces becoming explode among dozens of young people waiting to be entered in the lists of volunteers for entry into the security forces .

It is the first time in Tikrit there was a suicide bombing of this magnitude against a recruitment center of the security forces and the attack is worst since Oct. 31 when an Al Qaeda commandos raided a Syrian Orthodox church in Baghdad, killing 50 people.

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