Soldiers shot and burned in northern Iraq
(Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed across northern Iraq on Sunday, including five soldiers who were shot dead by gunmen who then burned their bodies, police and military sources said.
The attackers ambushed two taxis carrying soldiers on the road to Mosul from Baghdad and killed the five officers in Qaiyara town, 290 km (180 miles) north of the Iraqi capital, military sources said.
"One of the cars escaped the ambush but the second one could not and the militants shot dead five soldiers and burned their bodies after they killed them," a senior intelligence military officer, who declined to be named, said.
A medical source at the morgue in Mosul confirmed the soldiers' corpses had been burned.
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