3 cops wounded in Tikrit

SALAH AL-DIN / IraqiNews.com: Three anti-bombs experts were wounded in a bomb blast in central Tikrit on Tuesday, a police source said. “While anti-bombs experts were defusing a bomb, planted near al-Khansaa school in central Tikrit, another nearby bomb went off,” the source told Iraqi News. “Three experts, including Colonel Abdulhadi Mohamed Saleh, head of the anti-explosives department in Salah al-Din, were wounded,” he added. Tikrit, the capital of Salah al-Din, lies 175 km north of Baghdad . SH (P)/SR 1