12 KILLED, 20 INJURED IN ATTACK AGAINST PRESIDENTIAL PALACES COMPOUND IN TIKRIT http://www.namnewsnetwork.org/v2/read.php?id=160027

Twelve people were killed and 20 others were injured in a booby-trapped car blast against the Presidential Palaces compound in Tikrit city on Monday, according to a Salahal-Din police command source.“The attack by a suicide bomber, who blew up a booby-trapped car against the Presidential Palaces compound in central Tikrit, has resulted in 12 people killed, among them four army officers and five soldiers, along with 20 others injured, including civilians, army and police personnel,” the police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He said that the attack took place during celebrations to hand over the mission of protecting the said Presidential Palaces compound to the Iraqi troops, adding that “the Iraqi and the American troops have closed the entrance of the compound.”The attack was the second over the past four days, as a suicide bomber blew himself up in the compound’s al-Farouq Mosque during last Friday's prayer, killing 19 people and wounding 72 others, most of them members of the security forces, judges and two of the Province’s Council members.

Four other people, including two policemen, were killed and three others were injured, when another suicide bomber blew himself up in Tikrit’s Teaching hospital on Friday night. The Iraqi Islamic Party’s MP, Mutashar Hussein Allawi, escaped assassination, while three of his bodyguards were killed in the attack on the hospital.Tikrit, the centre of Salahal-Din Province, is 175 km to the north of Baghdad.

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