BAGHDAD – An Iraqi medical official says the death toll in a suicide attack on police recruits in northern Iraq has risen to 65.
Hospital director Dr. Raied al-Ani says 150 people were wounded in the attack, which occurred Tuesday in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
A suicide bomber joined hundreds of recruits waiting outside a police station in Tikrit to submit applications for 2,000 newly created jobs.
No group has taken responsibility, but the attack was in the style of al-Qaida-linked Sunni groups that want to keep fellow Sunnis from joining the security forces.
