A suicide attacker has blown up a tanker lorry at the police HQ in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, killing at least seven people, officials say.
A majority of the casualties and injured are thought to have been police officers, AFP news agency reports.
The city, which lies 160km (100 miles) north of the capital Baghdad, was the hometown of ex-leader Saddam Hussein.
Violence has decreased in Iraq since the peak of the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, but bombings are still common.
Sunni Islamist militants linked to al-Qaeda have vowed to step up attacks on Shia and official targets this year, in an attempt to weaken the Shia-led government.
Last week, at least 19 people died and more than 100 were wounded in a spate of car bomb attacks in the northern city of Kilkurk.
The violence comes ahead of provincial elections scheduled to take place on 20 April.
The country is experiencing a deep political crisis, with Prime Minister Nouri Maliki sharply at odds with a range of political forces, including the Kurds, most of the Sunni groups, and many factions within his own Shia community.
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