BAGHDAD, June 10, SPA -- A suicide truck bomber struck an Iraqi police agency in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding 50, police said, while overnight clashes between U.S. troops and militiamen reportedly left at least five people dead and 19 wounded. The explosion, which occurred about 10:30 a.m., devastated a building housing the highway police directorate in the Albu Ajil village on the eastern outskirts of Tikrit, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security concerns. The attacker detonated his payload after smashing into a blast wall, flattening a small reception building andcausing heavy damage to the main two-storey building just 20 meters (yards) away, the officer said, adding that most of the seven killed and 50 wounded were police. Police and rescuers dug through the rubble in a desperate search for survivors or bodies of more victims. About 60 vehicles inside the compound also were destroyed, the Associated Press reported.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/457528