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27 killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD: Twenty-seven people were killed across Iraq on Tuesday, while 12 mutilated bodies were found including three beheaded corpses of Iraqi army soldiers, security officials said.

At least 17 people were killed and 35 wounded by a suicide car bomb in northern Iraq. The bomber detonated a pickup truck full of flour parked at a busy marketplace in Tal Afar, close to the Syrian border, as shops were closing at around 8:00 pm, police said.

Two civilians were killed in a roadside bomb attack against a patrol of Facility Protection Service (FPS), a special security unit tasked with guarding ministry buildings and power stations. Four members of the patrol were also wounded in the Baghdad attack.

A Sunni cleric, Raed Mohammed al-Dulaimi, was also killed in southern Baghdad. The Iraqi Islamic Party said Dulaimi was the 150th Sunni cleric to be killed in Iraq since 2003. An Iraqi army soldier was killed and two others wounded when their patrol was attacked by gunmen near Kirkuk, police said.

Gunmen shot dead a judge in western Baghdad, while a baker was also killed in Baghdad’s notorious southern Al Dura neighbourhood. Two brothers were also killed by gunmen in southern Baghdad. A civilian and a political activist were mowed down by bullets in Amara, police said.

Also, police found 12 bodies of men killed around Baghdad and central Iraq. Three of the corpses, found beheaded, were Iraqi army soldiers. Their bodies washed up on the banks of the river Al-Malaeh, 60 kilometres south of Baghdad. The three were kidnapped on Monday, police said.

Two deliverymen working for an Iraqi army catering service company were kidnapped by armed men on Tuesday in northern Iraq, police said. Agencies

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