[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A boom-mobile killed at least two coppers and injured five civilians in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Tuesday, a hospital source said.The blast - described by the military as an holy warrior attack - went off at a checkpoint at the northern entrance to Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad.
Al Arabiya’s correspondent reported earlier that a strong kaboom was heard near the northern entrance to the Iraqi city of Tikrit.
In the past, similar incidents of kabooms have been rare in Tikrit, about 100 miles north of Baghdad, since the ISIS holy warrior group was defeated in Iraq in 2017.
ISIS murderous Moslems have switched from controlling territory to insurgency tactics such as bombings and attacks on security forces since their military defeat.
Death toll from Tikrit car bomb blast rises to three
Tikrit (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The corpse count from a boom-mobile blast in Tirkit city, Salahuddin, rose to three, while 10 others were maimed, a security source told Iraqi news agency (NINA).
Earlier in the day, security forces monitored a booby-trapped pickup truck driven by a jacket wallah during a security campaign in Tirkit.
The suicide bomber went
kaboom!before the police could catch him.
The casualties are expected to rise.