12 killed in Iraq mosque explosion

Twelve people were killed when a bomb exploded at a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad, officials have said.

Iraqi police and hospital officials in Tikrit say the bombing also wounded at least 25 people.

Tikrit is 80 miles north of Baghdad.

There are conflicting accounts of whether the blast was the work of a suicide bomber and whether the bomb went off inside or just outside the mosque.

The mosque is located inside a compound of palaces built during Saddam Hussein’s era.