A car bomb explosion in central Tikrit Wednesday evening killed 19 people and injured 50 others, according to reports. Gunmen stormed the house of a policeman, who is the driver of Head of Salaheddin Province’s Anti-Crime Department, in central Tikrit, killing him and planted explosives in the house and detonated them destroying the house, as well as damaging nearby houses; leaving a car bomb behind, a police source said. When people gathered at the site of the incident, the car bomb exploded killing 19 persons and wounding 50 others.