World, Middle East
Car bombing kills 3 in Iraq’s Tikrit
No group claims responsibility for attack
08.01.2019 - Update : 08.01.2019
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By Hussein al-Amir
BAGHDAD
At least three people were killed in a car bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit on Tuesday, according to a local police officer.
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He said four other people were injured in the attack.
Though no group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombing, Iraqi authorities usually blame the Daesh terrorist group for that kind of attacks.
In the summer of 2014, Daesh overran much of northern and western Iraq.
After a three-year war, the Iraqi government declared late in 2017 that Daesh's military presence in Iraq had been all but ended through operations backed by a U.S.-led international alliance.
