At least 12 security personnel died in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, in a triple suicide attack on Saturday. Officials said militants shot at a security check-point before driving a vehicle carrying explosives into it. Four security personnel died there. Two other militants drove into Tikrit city and detonated their car bombs, killing another eight people, The Guardian reported.

No group has taken responsibility for the attack yet. An official told Al Jazeera that the attacks took place as the local police chief and head of the provincial security committee were visiting the area, but that neither one was injured.