BAGHDAD (AFP) – Iraqi security forces said they shot dead a convicted militant on Saturday as he tried to escape from a prison with two accomplices. The three prisoners, all members of the Daesh group, were serving life sentences at the Taji penitentiary north of Baghdad, the security services said in a statement. They were spotted as they tried to break out of jail by climbing over an external wall, the statement said. Guards opened fire “when they refused to heed warnings,” it said, adding one prisoner was killed while the two others “surrendered.”