Terrorists Militants seized the city council headquarters in the Iraqi city of Samarra and took employees hostage on Tuesday, officials said, the second such del>terrorist attack in recent months.
Two terrorists militants, possibly wearing explosives-rigged vests or belts, seized the Samarra city council building on Tuesday morning with an unknown number of employees inside, security officials said. Clashes broke out between the del>terrorists militants and security forces, and a del>splodydope suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near police and Sahwa anti-Al Qaeda militia forces when they arrived at the scene.
The blast wounded 24 people, most of them police, a doctor and an officer said. The doctor also said that the deputy head of the city council was wounded in the bombing.
Salaheddin province is also home to the Sulaiman Bek area, where del>terrorists militants repeatedly battled security forces for control earlier this month. |