Shia militiamen in Iraq’s city of Baquba dragged the bodies of Islamic State jehadis fighters through the streets on Sunday and hung them from a bridge and a utility pole.
An AFP correspondent saw two bodies displayed in the centre of Baquba, a Shia-dominated city barely 60 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, but security officials counted at least four.
The city is under the control of the Iraqi army and allied Shia militiamen but is surrounded by many Sunni villages, which have been captured and recaptured several times in recent weeks.
“Several members of Daash were killed on Saturday in a battle just north of Muqdadiyah,” a nearby town, a police captain said, using the Islamic State’s former Arabic acronym. “Militiamen brought four bodies back and paraded through town in their cars, dragging the corpses behind them,” he said.