58 killed in bomb attacks, airstrikes in Iraq

February 24, 2015 22:38

Up to 58 people were killed in separate bomb attacks and airstrikes in central and northern Iraq Tuesday, security sources said.

In Iraq's northern central province of Salahudin, a bomb exploded near a group of young men who were gathered at a recruitment centre at a military base near the town Amerli, some 70 km east of the provincial capital Tikrit.

The blast killed three recruits and wounded five others, a provincial security source said.

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