Twelve people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit. Another 35 people were wounded in the attack.
A man wearing a police uniform drove into a police station grounds in Tikrit and detonated the vehicle during a change in shifts.
Another seven people, including members of the Iraqi security forces and a child, were killed in other attacks across the country.
In a separate incident in western Iraq, four Iraqi soldiers were killed when gunmen attacked their patrol near the Syrian border.
In Kirkuk, two Iraqi policemen were killed and two others were critically wounded in a roadside bomb blast.
And in the capital, Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on a bakery wounding at least two people.
