Car bomb blast in Iraq's Tikrit kills five: officials

  19 November 2018    Read: 1624
Car bomb blast in Iraq

A car bomb blast has killed at least five civilians and wounded 16 others in northern Iraq's city of Tikrit, police and medical sources have said, according to Al Jazeera.

The car was parked near a restaurant in Tikrit, about 175km north of the capital, Baghdad. The blast set nearly a dozen vehicles on fire, police sources said on Sunday.

Three of the dead were women, sources told the AFP news agency. Tikrit's main hospital said it had received several patients wounded in the attack.


There were no immediate claims for the attack, though the Islamic State (also know as IS, ISIS) has claimed responsibility for several recent attacks in Iraq.


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