US soldiers' bodies were booby-trapped

Explosives experts had to dismantle three roadside bombs to reach the bodies of two missing US soldiers in Iraq, whose remains were found tied together with a bomb between one of the soldier’s legs.

In a statement that provided additional detail on the killings, the US military said the bodies of US Army Pt. Kristian Menchaca of Houston, Texas, and Pt Thomas Tucker of Madras, Oregon, were found at 7.50pm local time on June 19 not far from where they were abducted when insurgents attacked their checkpoint.