Three policemen injured in IED blast in Tikrit

SALAHADDIN / IraqiNews.com: Three Iraqi policemen, including an officer, have been injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast on the main highway during a general celebration of Iraq‘s 89th anniversary of the Iraqi police establishment in Tikrit, the center of Salahaddin Province on Saturday, a Salahaddin security source said. “An IED, planted on the highway leading to the Central Celebrations Square in Tikrit, had blown up against police patrols, participating in the Iraqi Police Day celebrations on Saturday, wounding three policemen, among them an officer with a captain rank,” the security source told IraqiNews.com news agency. He said the incident had caused the postponement of the celebrations, whilst the wounded policemen were driven to a nearby hospital and the security forces had closed all the roads leading to the area of the celebrations. Tikrit, the center of Salahaddin Province, is 157 kms to the north of Baghdad. GJ (A) / SKH/SR 128