Councillors held hostage in Iraq

Men wearing suicide belts are holding an unknown number of people at a government building in Tikrit, officials say Gunmen wearing suicide bomb belts are holding local legislators and employees hostage at a government building in central Iraq, officials have said. A policeman and a senior Iraqi intelligence official said it was unknown how many people were being held at the Salahuddin provincial council headquarters, in Tikrit. Police immediately imposed a curfew to prevent all road and pedestrian traffic in Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad. The intelligence official compared the attack to a deadly siege at a church in Baghdad last autumn. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were unauthorised to release the information. Iraq Middle East guardian.co.uk

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