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Urgent: Iraqi court sentences 24 people to death for killing hundreds of Iraqi soldiers

Xinhua, July 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

An Iraqi court on Wednesday sentenced 24 defendants to death penalty over charges of killing about 1,700 soldiers when the Islamic State (IS) militants seized the city of Tikrit, the capital of Salahudin province, in June 2014, judicial spokesman said. Endit