A suicide truck bomber slammed into a crowd of police lining up for duty Sunday near Tikrit, collapsing the station and killing at least 30 people and wounding 50, police said.
Minutes later, a roadside bomb struck a car on a highway on the western outskirts of Tikrit, 128.74 kilometres north of Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding two others, police said.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Iraqi security forces would deploy in force this week as part of a U.S.-backed security sweep aimed at stopping the violence in the capital.
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