Suicide bomb blasts hit wedding near Iraq's Tikrit

Suicide bomb explosions target wedding ceremony in a 
village near the Iraqi city of Tikrit, officials say.

At least 26 people have been killed in suicide bomb
explosions at a wedding party in a village near the Iraqi city 
of Tikrit, medical and security sources have told news men.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for
Wednesday's attack in Hajjaj village, located 20km north of
Tikrit.

Security forces cordoned off the area and imposed a wider
curfew for fear of more attackers.

A police source told Reuters that two blasts hit the 
wedding and two more targeted security forces at the 
scene shortly afterwards. There were ongoing clashes between security forces and fighters in the area, he said.

Iraqi security forces retook Tikrit from Islamic State of Iraq
and the Levant - ISIL, also known as ISIS - in April 2015.

In November, ISIL bomb attacks hit Tikrit, north of the
 capital, Baghdad, in an apparent diversionary assault as 
Iraqi forces drove back the armed group's fighters in their stronghold of Mosul.