Suicide attack kills 6 tribal fighters north of Baghdad

People gather around the incident site as security forces cordon the area after a road-side parked car-bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq on 30 May, 2017 [Visam Ziyad Muhammed/Anadolu Agency]

Six Sunni tribal fighters were killed today, and another 30 people injured, in a suicide attack in Iraq’s Saladin province north of Baghdad, according to a local police source.

“A suicide bomber detonated his explosive device at a checkpoint manned by [pro-government] Hashd Al-Ashaeri fighters… in the town of Shirqat north of provincial capital Tikrit,” Police Lieutenant Salahuddin Al-Jabouri told the Anadolu Agency.

Although no group has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack, Al-Jabouri pointed the finger at Daesh.

Last year, officials in Baghdad declared that Daesh’s military presence in Iraq had been all but destroyed following three years of conflict with the Iraqi army and a US-led international coalition.

Iraqi security forces, however, still mount frequent operations against what they describe as Daesh “sleeper cells”.

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