Five teachers killed by suspected Iraqi insurgents
Suspected insurgents disguised as policemen shot and killed five teachers in a classroom of an elementary school south of Baghdad today, police said.
The shooting occurred just as teachers and students were leaving the building at the end of the school day in Muelha, a village near the town of Iskandariyah, and no one else was in the classroom at the time of the shooting, said police Capt. Muthana Khaled.
The five male teachers were kidnapped as they were leaving the school in a minibus, along with their driver, Khalied said. All six men were then taken back into the classroom, lined up against a wall and shot dead by the gunmen, he said.
Muelha, about 30 miles south of Baghdad, is located in a predominantly Sunni area of Iraq, but the identities of the people killed were not immediately known. Iraq’s Sunni-led insurgency against US forces in Iraq sometimes causes revenge killings by the country’s majority Shiite population.
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