Wednesday, May 11, 2011

A bomb killed two people in Iraq

Two policemen were killed and another was wounded Tuesday, May 10 evening in the explosion of two bombs at a passing police patrol in Tikrit, 160 km north of Baghdad, sources said police and Medical. An official had earlier reported eleven dead. The attack occurred around 21 h 15 (20 h 15 French time) Arbain street in the heart of this majority Sunni city, who is the former stronghold of former president Saddam Hussein, "said Command Police Salaheddin, where Tikrit is the capital.

A doctor's main city hospital confirmed receiving the bodies of two policemen and wounded an officer admitted. On 29 March, an armed commando stood up for several hours by security forces by taking refuge in the provincial council in Tikrit, an operation that had taken fifty-eight dead.

This attack, the bloodiest in Iraq since listed August 2010, was claimed by the Islamic State in Iraq, the local branch of Al Qaeda.

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