Boar-ed: Wild Swine Kill ISIS Fighters in Iraq

Wildlife have seemingly joined the anti-ISIS coalition in Iraq, as three Islamists were found gored to death by wild boar near the city of Kirkuk, according to a Tuesday report by The Telegraph.

“Three fighters from Isil were near the Peshmerga checkpoint in al-Rashad. They met some feral boars and the boars killed the three fighters,” according to Brigadier Azad Jelal of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

Refugees found the jihadists’ bodies as they were fleeing al-Rashad, which is currently partially occupied by ISIS.

Jelal speculated that “the three men may have been trying to defect from Isil and were trying to get near a Kurdish checkpoint to surrender.”

However, according to a Tuesday article from London’s The Times, the trio were reportedly “planning an attack on tribesmen who had formed anti-Isis brigades” in the area.

The Times report cited Sheikh Anwar al-Assi, a leader of the tribesman fighting the Islamist group, who gave his own take on the boar attack: “It is likely their movement disturbed a herd of wild pigs, which inhabit the area as well as the nearby cornfields. The area is dense with reeds, which are good for hiding in.”

ISIS members reportedly “responded to the deaths by going on a killing spree of wild boars in the area.” Brigadier Jelal revealed that “his forces had not tried to recover the bodies because of ongoing fighting in the area.”

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