Gunmen kill four worshippers in Iraqi mosque

TIKRIT, Iraq, June 15 (Reuters) Gunmen opened fire at a mosque near the Iraqi town of Tikrit today, killing four worshippers and wounding 20 others, a police source said.

No other details were immediately available about the attack in the small town of Alam east of Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad. Tikrit, in a predominantly Sunni Arab area, is the home town of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

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