By Xinhua
Tikrit, Iraq : An Iraqi police officer and an insurgent were killed in separate incidents in the Salahudin province, security sources in the province said on Monday.
Maj. Nahi Khalaf Ahmad was killed when a roadside bomb detonated before noon outside his house in central the capital city of Tikrit, 170 km north of Baghdad, a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Three people were also wounded by the blast that caused damages to nearby houses and civilian cars, he said.
Separately, an Iraqi police force teamed up with fighters from an Awakening Council group and raided on Sunday night al-Qaida hideouts in the open area of the al-Jallam, just east of Samarra City, some 120 km north of Baghdad, Mazin Younis, head of the Awakening group in the city, told Xinhua.
During the raid the police and the Awakening Council fighters had sporadic clashes with some militant groups, which resulted in the killing of an insurgent who was wearing an explosive vest and the detention of two others, Younis said.
A large cache of weapons and ammunition was seized in the raid, including 10 surface-to-air Strela missiles and explosive-vests, he said.