isis militants kill 31 civilians in tikrit attacks
Last Updated : GMT 09:07:40
Egypt Today, egypt today
Egypt Today, egypt today
Last Updated : GMT 09:07:40
Egypt Today, egypt today

ISIS militants kill 31 civilians in Tikrit attacks

Egypt Today, egypt today

Egypt Today, egypt today ISIS militants kill 31 civilians in Tikrit attacks

Displaced Iraqis react as they flee their homes on a rainy day
Tikrit - Arab Today

At least 31 people were killed, including 14 police officers, and more than 40 wounded in attacks overnight by ISIS militants in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, security and medical sources said on Wednesday.

The militants wore police uniforms and used a police vehicle to enter the city, located 175 km north of Baghdad, police colonel Khalid Mahmoud told Reuters. He said there were around 10 attackers, including two suicide bombers.

A total of 31 bodies were taken to hospital, including 14 belonging to policemen, said Nawfal Mustafa, a doctor at the city’s main hospital. The death toll rose in the morning as more bodies were found, belonging to civilians killed in their shops.

The attacks targeted a police checkpoint and the house of a police colonel, who was killed with four members of his family, officers said. Two suicide attackers detonated their vests when surrounded by police, and three others were killed in separate clashes. Five militants are thought to be hiding and Mahmoud said Tikrit authorities had declared a curfew on Wednesday. Sporadic gunfire could be heard in the morning.

The attacks come as a US-backed offensive is underway to dislodge Islamic State from the remaining districts under its control in Mosul, 225 km away, the groups last major urban stronghold in Iraq.

The militants overran about a third of Iraqs territory nearly three years ago, capturing most Sunni Arab cities located north and west of Baghdad, including Tikrit.

Iraqi forces and Iranian-backed Shiite militias drove the militants away from Tikrit two years ago. Tikrit is the home region of Saddam Hussein, the former president toppled in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.

source: AlArabiya

 

egypttoday
egypttoday

Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

isis militants kill 31 civilians in tikrit attacks isis militants kill 31 civilians in tikrit attacks



GMT 10:42 2017 Sunday ,20 August

Jordan king condemns Barcelona attack

GMT 06:26 2015 Saturday ,12 December

Saudi holds first ever election open to women

GMT 16:32 2018 Wednesday ,24 October

Kremlin comments on US decision to quit INF treaty

GMT 06:10 2015 Tuesday ,27 January

Drone targets 'Qaeda' in crisis-hit Yemen

GMT 12:58 2013 Monday ,16 September

Somali activist opens \'Desert Flower\'

GMT 06:53 2011 Wednesday ,06 July

Dubai Airport expansion plan endorsed

GMT 07:20 2011 Thursday ,16 June

Sales of Samsung\'s TVs top 2 mln in 3 months

GMT 18:16 2012 Wednesday ,18 April

Bashir threatens overthrow of S Sudan govt

GMT 17:50 2014 Sunday ,14 September

3 Pakistani soldiers killed in rocket attack

GMT 12:23 2017 Friday ,17 March

S&P cuts troubled Toshiba's credit rating

GMT 05:01 2017 Friday ,05 May

Arab Media Forum begins in Dubai

GMT 02:38 2017 Wednesday ,01 February

Of school kitchens and a ‘healthy’

GMT 07:22 2017 Thursday ,20 July

Tunisian efforts to eliminate corruption

GMT 07:57 2017 Wednesday ,08 November

A year on, NRIs debate effects of note ban

GMT 06:37 2012 Monday ,20 February

The vision of a new Arab president

GMT 08:24 2018 Thursday ,04 January

The literary canary in India's coalmine

GMT 00:42 2016 Monday ,21 November

36 killed in Syria's Aleppo clashes, bombing

GMT 08:31 2017 Thursday ,06 July

Qatar’s response negative

GMT 19:03 2012 Thursday ,26 January

Residents alerted as cold spell continues in UAE

GMT 01:52 2014 Thursday ,19 June

Investors pour $1m in app that just says 'Yo'

GMT 14:30 2013 Sunday ,28 July

Iraq, US reach deal on stolen artefacts
 
 Egypt Today Facebook,egypt today facebook  Egypt Today Twitter,egypt today twitter Egypt Today Rss,egypt today rss  Egypt Today Youtube,egypt today youtube  Egypt Today Youtube,egypt today youtube

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2021 ©

egypttoday egypttoday egypttoday egypttoday
egypttoday egypttoday egypttoday
egypttoday
بناية النخيل - رأس النبع _ خلف السفارة الفرنسية _بيروت - لبنان
egypttoday, Egypttoday, Egypttoday