BAGHDAD, Safar 4, 1434, Dec 17, 2012, SPA - Attacks against Iraqi security forces, and a minority killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens on Monday, police and medics said. Three gunmen attacked a police checkpoint on the highway west of Tikrit, killing one policeman and wounding three, according to a report of AFP. A police patrol chased the gunmen, who abandoned their car and then detonated explosives in it, killing four more police and wounding two, a police lieutenant colonel said. In the village of Al-Buslaibi, north of Baghdad, a roadside bomb targeting an army patrol killed three soldiers, an army captain and a police lieutenant colonel said. A car bomb in Khaznah, a village near Mosul in north Iraq populated by the small Shabak minority, killed seven people and wounded 12, while two car bombs near a worship place killed five and wounded 20 in the northern flashpoint town of Tuz Khurmatu, police officers said. --SPA 13:07 LOCAL TIME 10:07 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/1059838