2 cops injured in IED blast in Samarra

SALAH AL-DIN / IraqiNews.com: Two policemen have been killed and two others injured in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Samarra city early on Tuesday, whilst a group of armed men blew up the house of the Commander of the 2nd Iraqi Army Emergency Company in Salah al-Din Province, a Salah al Din police source said. “An IED, set up by unknown gunmen in a caravan belonging to a police checkpoint at Qadisiya district in Samarra city, killing two policemen and wounding two others,” the police source told IraqiNews.com news agency. He added that police cordoned off the blast area. In another incident, the same source said that the house of the Commander of the 2nd Brigade in Salah al Din’s Police Emergency forces, Lt. Brigadier Khalid al-Bayati at Qadisiya district, north of Tikrit, had been destroyed by unknown gunmen. “The officer’s residence had been empty when the armed men blew it up using IEDs, but caused no human casualties,” the police source concluded. SKH/SR 1