Iraqi teachers beheaded in front of students:report

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s Ministry of State for National
Security said on Wednesday two groups of gunmen entered two
primary schools in Baghdad and beheaded two teachers in front
of their students.

But the U.S. military and a police official said the
attacks never took place.

“Two terrorist groups beheaded two teachers in front of
their students in the Amna and Shaheed Hamdi primary schools in
Shaab district in Baghdad,” a ministry statement said.

An official in the ministry’s press office also confirmed
the report.

But the U.S. military said it was false.

“There is no substance to this report. It did not occur.
But we are still checking with Iraqi police and other sources,”
said U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Barry Johnson.

Police Major Kassim Ahmed told a Reuters reporter who went
to the scene: “This is not true. It is made up.”