Child killed, 4 injured in Samarra

SALAH AL-DIN / IraqiNews.com: A child was killed and four more were wounded on Thursday in an assassination attempt of president of the Samarra Criminal Court, a source from the Samarra Operations Command said. “A roadside bomb went off in al-Aamroushiya region, central Samarra, southern Tikrit, targeting the motorcade of Judge Shihab Ahmad al-Aadzawi, who survived the attack, while a child was killed and four others, including three bodyguards, were wounded,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “Security forces sealed off the whole area and carried the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment,” he added. Samrra is 45 km south of Tikrit, the capital of Salah al-Din, which lies 175 km north of Baghdad.   SH (TP)/SR   833