NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Two Iraqi soldiers have been killed in an armed attack by a group of unknown gunmen, using guns fixed with silencers, in northern Iraq’s city of Mosul on Wednesday, a Ninewa security source reported on Thursday.

“Two Iraqi soldiers have been killed by unknown gunmen, who opened fire on them by guns, fixed with silencers, in northern Mosul’s al-Had’ba district on Wednesday,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He said the two soldiers were in a checkpoint, when the gunmen opened fire on them, killing them on the spot and escaping to an unknown destination.

Mosul, the center of northern Iraq’s Ninewa Province, is 405 km to the north of Baghdad.

SKH (ST)