Tuesday's found attack in a local government building in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein were Sunni militants associated with al Qaeda for a bloody siege in Tikrit where 56 ToteIrakische officials said.Tuesday's attack occurred in a local government building in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein.
A fierce gun battle ended, as the attackers - numbering about eight - blew up themselves.
Among the dead were local government officials and an Iraqi journalist. More than 100 people were injured.
Tikrit - the capital of the province of Salahuddin - was once a stronghold of the Sunni uprising the America-led invasion in 2003 followed.
"Reckless" attackThe attack began at 1300 local time (1000 GMT) and lasted more than four hours.
Belt gunmen in military uniforms on explosives blasted a car outside the Council seat to create a distraction.
Then calculated into the building and more than a dozen people, including three legislators, who were killed by a single shot to the head shot.
The standoff ended only possible if blew up in what one of the bloodiest days in the Iraq this year was the attacker himself.
Shortly after a curfew was imposed about 160 km (100 km) northwest of Baghdad in Tikrit.
Salahuddin Governor Ahmed Abdullah called the attack "a tragic event carried out by ruthless terrorists".
Al Qaeda were Iraqi officials blame quickly for the attack, pointing out that execution style killings and suicide bombings are trademarks of the group.
An official in Baghdad intelligence compared the attack last year that dead, the news agency AP left some 60 people for al Qaeda hostage RAID on a Catholic Church in Baghdad in October reported.
Power over Iraq since its peak in 2006 and 2007 significantly declined, but attacks still common.
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