Seven Corpses found in northern Iraq
'Pakistan Times' Wire Service

KIRKUK: Police on Saturday found seven bodies of men shot dead in apparent sectarian killings in northern Iraq, while rebels killed an Iraqi soldier in a roadside bomb attack in the same area, police said.

Four handcuffed and bullet-riddled bodies were found on the highway between the northern cities of Kirkuk and Tikrit, while three bodies were recovered from near Tikrit.

In a separate incident an Iraqi soldier was killed when insurgents attacked his patrol with a roadside bomb, police said, adding three other soldiers were wounded.

A senior police officer was wounded in a similar roadside bombing in eastern Kirkuk, while insurgents threw a grenade at a police patrol in which 10 people were also wounded, including three policemen.●