Car bomb blast kills two police in Iraq's Tikrit

A car bomb killed at least two police officers and injured five civilians in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Tuesday, a hospital source said.

The blast - described by the military as a terrorist attack - went off at a checkpoint at the northern entrance to Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad. (Reporting by Raya Jalabi Editing by Andrew Heavens)