Suicide bombing kills 7 security members in northern Iraq

At least seven security members were killed and 28 others wounded on Monday in a suicide bombing targeting the Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite militia in Iraq's northern central province of Salahudin, a provincial security source said.

The attack occurred in the morning when a suicide bomber drove his explosive-laden tanker truck into the outer checkpoint of a military base in north of the city of Samarra, some 120 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The powerful blast left eight people killed, including the bomber, and some 28 militiamen and soldiers wounded, the source said, citing initial reports.

Large parts of Salahudin province have been under IS control since June 11, a day after bloody clashes broke out between Iraqi security forces and the IS group, which took control of the country's northern city of Mosul and later seized swathes of territories in Nineveh and other predominantly Sunni provinces. Endit