Double car bomb kills six in Iraq

A CAR bomb exploded outside a police academy in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit in Iraq yesterday, and another one went off moments later as authorities rushed to the scene, killing at least six Iraqis and wounding 33, officials said.

As police imposed a curfew in the city, a doctor at Tikrit General Hospital said four policemen and two civilians were killed by the bombs, and 33 people wounded, most of them policemen. Tikrit is 80 miles north of Baghdad.

South of the capital, three insurgents were killed yesterday as the roadside bomb they were trying to plant in the town of Mahawil exploded, police said in the nearby city of Hillah.