Baghdad, Safar 11, 1434, Dec 24, 2012, SPA - Two Iraqi policemen were killed today in an armed attack on a security checkpoint in Samarra city, south of Tikrit of the Central governorate of Salahuddin. A local security source said that unknown gunmen opened fire on a checkpoint belonging to the federal police in central city of Samarra, killing two of its members. The source indicated that the police rushed to the site of the incident and began their search for the attackers, who fled to an unknown destination. Meanwhile, the police transported the bodies of the dead to the morgue (of a hospital). --SPA 12:51 LOCAL TIME 09:51 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/1062204