A bomb exploded in Al-Qasaba area in northern Iraq last night, killing seven people and injuring 36 others. A police source told the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) that a truck bomb parked near the house of an employee at the Cabinet's Secretariat, near the new government building in Shirqat district, north of Tikrit, went off, killing 7 persons, including 2 women, and wounding 36 others, as well as causing damages to the government building and nearby houses. Source: QNA