Paraded in a glass coffin and flanked by jostling civilians, members of the armed forces and the media scrum, the former right-hand man of Saddam Hussein was handed over to the authorities today. Iraqi officials said Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri had died in fighting with government troops in Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad, on Friday. Today, his body was returned to Baghdad and delivered to the Ministry of Health as crowds gathered to get a closer look at the 'King of Clubs'. Scroll down for video . The body of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri was today delivered to the Ministry of Health in Baghdad . Civilians, members of the armed forces and photographers try to get a closer look at the body . Al-Douri was ranked sixth on the US military's list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis after the offensive to overthrow Saddam and had a $10m bounty on his head . Al-Douri, 72, was reportedly killed near Tikrit, where he was working alongside ISIS militants . Al-Douri was deputy to Saddam when he was deposed following the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 . A glass coffin with transparent panels carrying the body of Al-Douri - with his bright orange beard - was transferred from a van into a government vehicle. The event was broadcast live on state television in Iraq. Al-Douri, 72, headed the Naqshbandi Order insurgent group, an important faction behind the recent rise of ISIS. He was one of Saddam's most trusted henchmen, helping to lead his 1968 bloodless coup. Both Al-Douri and Saddam came from the same Tikriti tribal background. His daughter was briefly married to Saddam's elder son, Uday, who - together with his brother Qusay - was killed by US forces in Mosul in July 2003. He was then deputy to Saddam when he was deposed following the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Following the execution of Saddam Hussein on 30 December, 2006, Al-Douri was confirmed as the new leader of the banned Ba'ath Party. A man in army uniform and a balaclava takes a picture of the former right-hand man of Saddam Hussein . A glass coffin with transparent panels containing the remains of Al-Douri was transferred from a van into a government vehicle in scenes broadcast on state television in Iraq . Al-Douri was an Iraqi military commander and was Vice Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council, until the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq . Al-Douri was the King of Clubs in the famous pack of cards the US issued of wanted members of Saddam's regime after its collapse . Al-Douri was deemed the most high-profile official of Saddam's Ba'ath Party to evade capture after the invasion. He was ranked sixth on the US military's list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis after offensive to overthrow Saddam and had a $10m bounty on his head. He was the King of Clubs in the infamous pack of cards the US issued of wanted members of Saddam's regime after its collapse. His dead body was pictured on social media on Friday with his teeth missing, an unkempt orange beard and a bloody head wound. Salahuddin governor Raed al-Jabouri said soldiers and allied Shia militiamen killed him in an operation east of Tikrit - a city that was recaptured by the government two weeks ago. He said: 'This is a major victory for those involved in the operation. He is considered a mastermind for this terrorist group. 'For sure this will have an impact on them...there will be a break among them.' ISIS currently controls a swath of land slightly larger than the UK, from Aleppo to central Iraq. In the invasion of Iraq by a US-led coalition, the military developed a set of playing cards to help troops identify the most-wanted members of Saddam's regime. This was mostly high-ranking members of the Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party or members of the Revolutionary Command Council. The cards were officially named the 'personality identification playing cards'. Each card contained the wanted person's address and, if available, the job they carried out. The highest-ranking cards, starting with the aces and kings, were used for the people at the top of the most-wanted list. Saddam, who was number one on the most wanted list, was the Ace of Spades. The aces of clubs and hearts were his sons Qusay and Uday respectively, who were both killed in Mosul in 2003. The ace of diamonds was Saddam's presidential secretary Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti. He was executed in June 2012 after being sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Tribunal. Al-Douri was the King of Clubs in the pack of cards. However, in recent months Iraqi forces, supported by US-led air strikes, have captured large areas from the terrorist group. But on Friday, a car bomb killed three people outside the US consulate in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region that is allied with Washington in a war against ISIS, which claimed the attack. No US personnel were hurt in the blast, according to the State Department, which said a 'vehicle-borne improvised explosive device' exploded right outside the entrance to the heavily fortified compound. ISIS also claimed responsibility for two car . bombings in Baghdad that killed at least 27 people on . Friday. 'The fighters of the Islamic State detonated two car bombs . in the heart of the Iraqi capital this evening and a third in . Erbil,' the group said via its news agency. Such attacks are relatively rare in Kurdistan, which has . managed to insulate itself from the worst of the violence . afflicting the rest of Iraq. A car bomb killed three people outside the US consulate in Erbil, capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region, on Friday . Kurdish security forces respond to an explosion at the pedestrian entrance to the US Consulate complex .
Iraqi officials say Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, 72, has died in fighting in Tikrit . He was one of Saddam Hussein's most trusted henchmen in Ba'ath Party . Had a $10m bounty on his head and was one of the US's most wanted men . Body returned to Baghdad today and delivered to the Ministry of Health . WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT .