Monday, October 24, 2016

At least 131 killed in clashes in Kirkuk between ISIS, Iraqi forces

At least 131 people, including 74 "militants", were killed in clashes in an Iraqi city, government and medical sources reported Monday.


Kirkuk's governor Najmeddin Karin said in a statement that Iraqi and Kurdish forces had killed 74 members of the Islamic State in combats between Friday and Sunday.

He said several IS militants had been arrested, including the Iraqi leader who had launched the attacks on Friday.

According to Karin, this leader said the city's IS faction was comprized of 100 militants, most of them from Iraq.

A Kirkuk medical source told EFE that, apart from the 74 IS members, another 57 people had been killed in the fighting, most of them members of the security forces, and another 150 were injured.

During the attacks, the IS militants took control of some police stations and placed snipers on several buildings.

After Friday's clashes reinforcements were sent to several cities in the Iraqi Kurdistan autonomous region.

Monday was the eighth day of the offensive to try to recover Mosul from IS.

Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga aim to expel the IS from this city which has languished under jihadist rule since June 2014.
 EFE
24/10/16
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