Relatives of captured Iraqi soldiers storm parliament: witnesses

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More than 100 relatives of Iraqi soldiers captured by Islamic State fighters broke into parliament armed with sticks, metal bars and stones on Tuesday to demand news of them, witnesses said. The crowd, mostly from Iraq's Shi'ite majority, smashed equipment, assaulted at least two staff members they mistook for lawmakers and refused to leave the building, said officials inside. A special forces unit came to remove them from the parliament," the employee said. Islamic State captured the soldiers in June at the start of its lightening advance through **rthern and central Iraq, where it declared an Islamic Caliphate and threatened to march on Baghdad.

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