2 sentenced to die for 'terror attack' in Iraq’s Anbar

By Ali Jawad

BAGHDAD

Two Iraqis were sentenced to death on Monday after being convicted earlier of killing 12 civilians in Iraq’s western Anbar province.

According to Abdul-Sattar Bayrakdar, a spokesman for Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, a criminal court sentenced the pair to death earlier for killing 12 civilians in Anbar’s Al-Jazeera district in what the court described as a “terrorist attack”.

A third person was slapped with life behind bars for taking part in a separate attack in Diyala province.

The defendants now have 30 days in which to appeal the sentences before Iraq’s Federal Court of Cassation.