By Xinhua,
Tikrit, Iraq : An Iraqi judge and a police officer survived bomb explosions in a town of the northern province of Salahudin on Monday, a local police source said.
“Abdul Amir al-Baiyati, a judge in the court of the town of TuzKhurmatu, escaped unhurt when a roadside bomb exploded near his convoy while traveling in central the town before midday,” the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The blast also wounded five of Baiyati’s bodyguards and damaged two vehicles of his convoy, the source said.
Also in the town, Col. Hussein Qaranaz, head of the local major crimes office, was seriously injured when a roadside bomb detonated in front of his house in the al-Askari neighborhood in central the town,” the source added.
The incident occurred in the morning when Qaranaz was heading to his office, he said.
Tuz Khurmato, some 90 km east of the capital city of Tikrit, is one of the areas that the Kurds planed to annex to their semi-independent region, raising tensions among its Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen communities.