Explosion in Northern Iraq Kills Two Soldiers, Injures Three

A member of the Iraqi federal police forces sits inside an armoured vehicle at a checkpoint in a street in the capital Baghdad on Jan. 29, 2021. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images

BEIRUT—Two soldiers were killed and three were injured in an explosion in northern Iraq, Iraqi state news said Thursday.

The soldiers were traveling in an army vehicle a day earlier in the Makhmour district when an explosive device detonated, the state Iraqi News Agency reported.