Police chief wounded by IED

SALAH AL-DIN / IraqiNews.com: A police chief in Salah al-Din province was wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) targeted his vehicle in northern Tikrit city, a local security source said on Saturday. “Last night, an explosive charge detonated near a vehicle belonging to a police chief in al-Qadissiya neighborhood (northern Tikrit city), while he was heading home,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The official was slightly wounded in the blast, the source noted, adding that another device went off after bomb disposal experts had arrived on the scene, wounding one of them. Tikrit, the capital city of Salah al-Din province, lies 175 km north of Baghdad. SS (P) 1