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London (AFP) Feb 12, 2010 Eight Iraqis are set to go on trial in connection with the deaths of six British soldiers at the hands of an Iraqi mob in 2003, the Ministry of Defence in London said Friday. The British military policemen were killed after becoming trapped in a police station they had been due to re-equip following looting in Al-Majar al-Kabir on June 24, 2003, three months after the US-led invasion of Iraq. "The case is now at the investigative stage where the judge reviews the evidence. He has indicated that eight suspects now in custody will go to trial," an MoD spokesman said, adding that the judge and suspects were Iraqi. The soldiers' deaths, one of the British military's bloodiest episodes of recent times, sparked accusations from the men's families that the soldiers had been abandoned to their fate through a lack of functioning equipment. In March 2006, a British coroner recorded a verdict of unlawful killing but did not apportion blame. He said they should have been better equipped but said their deaths could not have been avoided. The spokesman said: "The UK government is committed to seeing the killers of the six Royal Military Police personnel brought to justice and our thoughts remain with the families of those who died throughout this difficult process." Britain was providing assistance to the Iraqi authorities "in every way possible to secure convictions, including access to UK investigative materials and expertise", he added.
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