Five killed and 16 injured in Iraq car bombing

Five people have been killed in a car bomb explosion in the Iraqi city of Tikrit.

An army official said 16 others were wounded in the blast that targeted a commercial street yesterday.

The officer spoke on condi- tion of anonymity in line with army regulations.

Tikrit’s main hospital said it had received several patients wounded in the attack.

Tikrit is the capital of Iraq’s northern Salahuddin province, where security forces killed 30 Islamic State terrorits in October.

Another 20 extremists were killed in a raid in the nearby Makhmour Mountains the next day.

The terrorist group has switched to insurgent tactics since it was defeated in Iraq’s cities last year.

The fanatics have claimed responsibility for a number of bombings and kidnappings in recent months.