1 civilian killed, 3 injured in blast in Tikrit

SALAH AL-DIN / IraqiNews.com: One civilian was killed and three others were wounded when a thermal bomb hit a U.S. army patrol in central Tikrit city. “The blast occurred yesterday when unknown gunmen threw a thermal bomb on a U.S. army patrol in central Tikrit,” an Iraqi police source told IraqiNews.com news agency on Wednesday. Tikrit, the capital city of Salah al-Din province, lies 175 km north of Baghdad. MH (P)/SR 1