Wild boars have killed three Isis militants who were setting up an ambush in the Hamrin mountains in Iraq GETTY IMAGESA herd of wild boars has mauled three Islamic State militants to death and injured five others in Iraq while the extremists were setting up an ambush, Iraqi locals have claimed. The militants had taken cover in a bed of reeds near fields in the Hamrin mountains, about 55 miles southwest of Kirkuk, when they were attacked by the animals on Sunday, a local sheikh told The Times. The group were planning a surprise attack on local tribesmen who had formed anti-Isis brigades and fled to the mountains when the militants seized the nearby town of Hawija in mid-2014. Sheikh Anwar al-Assi, a chief of the local Ubaid tribe and supervisor of the anti-Isis forces, told The Times that at least eight Isis fighters had…

Source: The Times April 25, 2017 10:52 UTC