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Gunmen kill 8 Iraqi soldiers

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06-09-2011 | 07:20

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Gunmen killed eight Iraqi soldiers and wounded one in a northern Iraqi town on Tuesday when they ambushed an army patrol and set the soldiers' vehicle on fire, police sources said.

Iraq's army and police are a primary target of bombs and attacks as U.S. security forces prepare to fully withdraw by year-end, more than eight years after the U.S.-led invasion.
The incident occurred at about 1:30 a.m. local on the outskirts of Haditha, 190 km northwest of Baghdad, on the road to Baiji, the sources said.

The attackers, armed with Kalashnikovs, used three vehicles in the ambush, police sources said.

They said the gunmen shot at the vehicle's tyres initially, before killing all the eight soldiers in the vehicle and setting it alight.

"When we reached the scene, we found the bodies. They were completely burned and cannot be recognised. It appears to have been a well-prepared ambush set up by attackers to attack this patrol," a source from the Haditha police said.

The ninth soldier, who was badly wounded, had fallen from the vehicle during an initial chase and escaped being burned.

-Reuters

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