Final toll in attack on Presidential palace reaches 12 killed, 20 injured

6/6/2011 12:25 PM

SALAH AL-DIN / Aswat al-Iraq: The final result of a booby-trapped car blast that targeted the Presidential Palaces compound in Tikrit city on Monday, has reached 12 killed and 20 injured, according to a Salah al-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, had reached 12 persons killed, among them 4 Army officers and 5 soldiers, along with 20 others injured, including civilians, Army and police men,” the police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.



He said that attack took place during celebrations to hand over the mission of protecting the said Presidential Palaces compound to the Iraqi troops.


“The Iraqi and the American troops have closed the entrance of the compound,” he added.



The attack against the Presidential Palaces compound in Tikrit was the second attack of its type over the past 4 days, as a suicide bomber blew himself up in the compound’s al-Farouq Mosque last Friday, killing 19 persons and wounding 72 others, most of them members of the security forces, judges and 2 of the Province’s Council members.



Four other people, including 2 policemen, were killed and 3 others were injured, when another suicide bomber blew himself up in Tikrit’s Teaching hospital on Friday night.
Iraqi Islamic Party’s Legislature, Mutashar Hussein Allawi, escaped an assassination attempt, whilst 3 of his bodyguards were killed in the attack on the hospital.



Tikrit, the center of Salah al-Din Province, is 175 km to the north of Baghdad.



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