Iraqi soldiers abducted, 44 bodies found across Iraq [View All]

Source: Monsters and Critics

Baghdad - An official police source said that an armed group abducted five Iraqi soldiers near Kirkuk city Friday, as 44 unidentified bodies were found around the country, sources said.

Some security force personnel belonging to oil facilities in the area were ambushed by armed men on the main road to the south-west of Kirkuk, which is 290 kilometres north of Baghdad, independent Voices of Iraq news agency reported.

The forces were seized and taken to an unknown place, the source said.

No further details were immediately available.

Meanwhile, an Iraqi security source said that 29 unidentified bodies had been found in the 24 hours to Friday in different parts of the Iraqi capital


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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 1


* KIRKUK - A suicide truck bomber in Uweidla village near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, killed five people and wounded 25, police said.

* BAQUBA - Six decomposing bodies were found dumped together in the Tahreer district of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* MAHMUDIYA - Two civilians were killed and four wounded when mortar rounds landed on a residential area of Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

* KIRKUK - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in the northern city of Kirkuk wounded five policemen, police said.

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