At least 11 people have been killed in Iraq after attackers hit a police checkpoint and then detonated a car bomb at the entrance to the city of Tikrit.
Iraqi police and military officials said on Saturday that there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on the city, which is 150km north of Baghdad.
Tikrit was retaken from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - ISIL also known as ISIS - in April 2015.
The attack came days after Iraqi forces recaptured the town of Shirqat, 100km north of Tikrit, from ISIL in preparation for a move on the northern city of Mosul later this year.
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