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Gunmen kill five civilians, abduct four others, southwest of Kirkuk |
2017-12-06 |
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Five civilians, including a mayor, were killed in an armed attack in southwest of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a security source from the province said on Tuesday. Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, "a group of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... armed "Security troops cordoned off the accident scene and transferred the bodies to forensic medicine department," the source, who preferred anonymity, added. Moreover, four civilians were kidnapped by armed "Armed persons kidnapped, in the evening, three civilians from al-Nasr and al-Sharifiya villages in Riyad, southwest of Kirkuk," another source said. "Those people have strong ties with security officers." "Another group of armed people kidnapped a civilian in al-Khuzeifi village," the source, who asked to remain anonymous, added. "The kidnapped person is a relative of a senior army officer in Kirkuk. |
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