Car bomb explodes at entrance to Iraq’s northern Tikrit

Reuters
Displaced Iraqis wait next to their vehicles as they get ready to return home to Tikrit in this July 22, 2015 photo after government forces retook the city from Daesh a few months earlier. (AFP)

BAGHDAD: A car bomb killed at least two police officers and injured five civilians in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Tuesday, a hospital source said.
The blast - described by the military as a terrorist attack - went off at a checkpoint at the northern entrance to Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad.

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