The head of Saddam Hussein's tribe has been blown up in a car bomb in the town of Awja, near Tikrit, Iraqi police say.
They said explosives may have been attached to the underside of the car belonging to Sheikh Ali al-Nida, head of the Bu Nasir tribe.
Sheikh Ali's driver was also killed in the blast and at least one of his guards was seriously wounded.
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Maj Ahmed Subhi, head of a counter-terrorism unit in Salahuddin province, said the sheikh "was the victim of assassination".
"When he left his house there was a bomb in his car that killed him and a driver," Maj Subhi added.
(BBC)
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