1st LD: Two provincial security chiefs survive suicide bomb attacks in Iraq's Salahudin, 8 killed

Two senior security officials of Iraq's central province of Salahudin escaped suicide bomb attacks in the province's capital city Tikrit on Saturday morning, a provincial security source told Xinhua.

At least eight people were killed and 23 others injured in the twin bomb attacks, the source said on condition of anonymity.

In the first attack, a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the convoy of provincial police chief Maj. Gen. Dhamin al-Jubouri, near the northern entrance of the city, some 170 km north of Iraq's capital Baghdad, the source said.

Minutes later, also at the northern entrance of the city, another suicide bomber detonated his car near the convoy of Sheikh Jasim al-Jebara, head of the security committee of Salahudin provincial council.

The casualties were checkpoint security members and bodyguards in the convoys.

In a separate incident, unidentified gunmen attacked al-Salam security checkpoint, north of Tikrit, killing four soldiers before fleeing the scene.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for those attacks inside and near Tikrit.

The Sunni-dominated province of Salahudin has witnessed a lot of deadly attacks since security forces and allied paramilitary units, known as Hashd Shaabi, retook the province from IS militants who seized a large part of it in June 2014. Endit