Tikrit attack leaves eight police dead

In another attack targeting Iraqi security forces, a suicide car bomb destroyed a police minibus at a checkpoint in Saddam Hussein’s hometown today, killing at least eight policemen, officials said.

The attack in Tikrit was part of a surge of violence that has killed at least 255 people – many of them Iraqi soldiers and police – since Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari announced his new government on April 28, with seven Cabinet positions still undecided.