Clashes at a prison in the Iraqi city of Tikrit killed at least 13 policemen, according to hospital sources. The prison was seized by militants but has since been retaken by security forces

Clashes at a prison in the Iraqi city of Tikrit killed at least 13 policemen, according to hospital sources. The prison was seized by militants but has since been retaken by security forces, officials said on Friday.
  
Salaheddin provincial deputy governor Ahmed Abdul Jabbar told AFP by telephone that 12 policemen were killed in fighting at the prison in Tikrit, north of Baghdad and that the prison had been retaken from militants who seized it on Thursday night, but 83 prisoners escaped.
  
A source in the Salaheddin police command said that 15 policemen and seven prisoners were killed in the violence, and put the number of escaped prisoners at around 100.
  
"We took control of the prison, and the gunmen handed over their weapons," the source said.