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| Five Turkish security guards killed in Iraq: Turkish FM |
| 2004-12-19 |
| Five Turkish security guards were killed in an ambush as they were travelling by car through Iraq to Baghdad, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said. Earlier an official in the Iraqi town of Mosul was quoted as saying the attackers machine gunned the guards and decapitated one of them after telling them to get out of the cars. A foreign ministry statement quoted by the Anatolia news agency, said eight guards had crossed Turkey's border with Iraq at Habur in four cars, and were on their way to the embassy in Baghdad, when they were attacked around the flashpoint Iraqi city of Mosul. Five of the security guards along with two Iraqi drivers were killed. Two survivors reached Baghdad, while a third returned to the border at Habur, the statement said. "Armed men made the passengers get out of the cars, lie on the ground, machine-gunned them and cut off the head off one of them," Muhammet Tahir, an official of the Turkmen Front in Mosul, was quoted as telling the Turkish press agency DHA. It said US forces who controlled the region had killed two of the attackers. The CNN-Turk website said one of the victims was a police inspector while three were police officers. |
| Posted by:Fred |