Detained Egypt, Saudi suspects lynched in Iraq second city [View All]

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Eleven suspected foreign fighters from Egypt and Saudi Arabia were seized by gunmen from a prison in Iraq's largely Shiite second city of Basra Wednesday and all but one of them lynched, police said.

The bodies of three of them were found in the city centre close to the offices of the state-owned South Oil Company.

The corpses of another seven were found in a southwestern neighbourhood of Basra.

The attack on the suspected Sunni militants came amid a wave of anger across Shiite central and southern Iraq over a bomb attack on one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines.

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