| Submit your comments on this article | |
| Iraq | |
| Iraqi girl dies after Daesh chemical attack | |
| 2016-03-12 | |
A three-year-old Iraqi girl wounded in a chemical attack by the Daesh group died in hospital on Friday, medical sources and officials said.
Fatima Samir was among the dozens of people hospitalised after a chemical attack carried out Wednesday on the town of Taza, just south of the city of Kirkuk. Burhan Abdallah, the head of Kirkuk health directorate, said four people in serious condition were transferred to Baghdad. Aswad said the rockets fired on Taza from the nearby Daesh-held town of Bashir contained mustard agent. Other security officials said chlorine may have been used. Intelligence officials have collected samples that are still being analysed. Abu Ridha Al Najjar, a leader in the Turkmen branch of the Hashed Al Shaabi paramilitary umbrella group, said the attack had sown fear. "International NGOs should come to the region to see the effects of such shelling and its consequences on the civilian population, including after the attack," he said. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 NOW they don't have chemical weapons - it got used up. Rinse and repeat. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-03-12 11:22 |