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| Iraq |
| Daesh shells Turkmen village with chemical weapons |
| 2016-05-04 |
| [AA.TR] The terrorist ISIS group has attacked a Turkmen village in northern Iraq with chemical weapons, sources in a pro-government militia said. "ISIS bully boyz have shelled the Bashir village with chemicals," Yalmiz Shehab, a commander of the Shia Hashd al-Shaabi militia, told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. According to Shehab, eight people were maimed in the attack, including one seriously. The Kurdish peshmerga forces and Hashd al-Shaabi Lions of Islam had recaptured the village from ISIS last week. Shehab said the village has been cleared from all ISIS terrorists. The village, which has a Turkmen majority, was captured by ISIS in 2014. Most of its residents fled the village and took refuge in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... only 25 kilometers away. Iraqi militiaman dies defusing bomb in Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk province said on Tuesday, that an element within al-Hashed al-Sha’bi militia had been killed while defusing an explosive device that was planted by ISIS in the village of Bashir south of the province. The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com “Today, one of the elements of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi [militia] tried to dismantle an explosive device that was emplaced by ISIS elements inside one of the houses in Bashir village located in Taza Khurmatu (25 km south of Kirkuk),” noting that “The bomb exploded during the dismantlement, killing him on the spot.” The source, who asked not to be named, added: “A force from al-Hashed has moved the body to the forensic medicine department.” |
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