International News: Iraq court sentences 40 to death over 2014 Tikrit massacre.The slaughter of 1,700 soldiers after they fled from an ex-U.S. army base outside the northern city of Tikrit has become a symbol of Islamic State's brutality and the Sunni insurgent group's sectarian hatred of Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim majority.
"The court ordered the execution of 40 (people) convicted of involvement in the incident, while seven were released for lack of evidence," Iraq's judiciary spokesman Abdel Sattar Bayraqdar said in the statemen. "Some of them actually did the killing and others assisted them in this crime," the official, who could not give his name because he was not authorised to talk to the press, told AFP.
