Qa'dah 1431, Oct 19 (SPA) - Bombs destroyed the home of a senior Iraqi police commander on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people in the northern city of Tikrit, police said. The attackers planted bombs and left a booby-trapped motorbike near the house of Lieutenant Colonel Qais Farhan, commander of the emergency response unit of Tikrit, police Major Dawood Sulaiman, who was at the scene, told Reuters. He said four people were also wounded in the explosion, including Farhan. The dead included three children and four women, all of them relatives of the police commander. His house was left in ruins. Police, soldiers and civil defence forces searched for victims under the rubble.
