Blasts kill 15 in Tikrit

Two suicide bombers killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 30 in Iraq's Tikrit city as police and soldiers were collecting their salaries at a local bank, police and hospital officials said on Thursday. The attacks were the latest to target local Iraqi security forces as the last US troops prepare to pull out of the country more than eight years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
One suicide bomber detonated his explosives among officers who were gathered outside the Rafidain bank in the centre of Tikrit, later another blew up a car when emergency workers arrived, police said.