By Xinhua,
Baghdad : A roadside bomb struck a police chief’s convoy in an Iraqi town north of Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing him and four policemen, an Interior Ministry source said.
The incident took place in the town of Tarmiyah, 40 km north of Baghdad, when a roadside bomb hit the convoy of a Colonel who is the police chief of the nearby town of Mashaahda, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Despite security gains in recent months in Iraq, there are still sporadic bombings, which shape setback to the Iraqi government.