BAGHDAD, April 14 (Reuters) - Twelve members of Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga security force were killed and two wounded on Monday when a car bomb exploded as they were travelling in a truck in the country's north, police said.

The incident took place near the Syrian border. The Kurdish security force is part of the Iraqi army.

(Writing by Noah Barkin, Editing by Dean Yates)

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