AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Four Iraqi policemen were killed on Sunday in two back-to-back bomb blasts at one of their positions north of the capital, near a former militant bastion, local officials and officers said.
"At around 8:00am, the police officers were taking up their post at the southern entrance of Al Sharqat," the town's mayor, Ali Dodah, told AFP.
"One bomb went off, killing two police officers and wounding eight. An hour and a half later, as reinforcements arrived, a second bomb went off," Dodah said.
A police officer speaking on condition of anonymity confirmed the first blast's toll to AFP and said the second explosion killed two officers and wounded three.
And a medical source at Al Sharqat's hospital confirmed a total of four officers were killed.
Al Sharqat, around 250 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad, was held by the Daesh terrorist group until autumn 2017.
It was one of the last areas recaptured by the government, which announced several months later that it had ousted Daesh from Iraq.
On Thursday, a car bomb killed a police officer near Hawija, another former Daesh stronghold.
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27 January 2019 - 15:36
News ID: 926591
Four Iraqi policemen were killed on Sunday in two back-to-back bomb blasts at one of their positions north of the capital, near a former militant bastion, local officials and officers said.
