Baghdad, June 7 (IANS) The bodies of 21 policemen who were executed by militants have been found in Iraq's **rthern city of Mosul, capital of Nineveh province, as fierce battles continue for the second day, a provincial police source said Saturday. On Friday, dozens of militants took control of several neighbourhoods in western Mosul and fought fierce clashes with the Iraqi forces, that led to the killing of up to 35 security personnel, five civilians and 30 militants. Nineveh's Operations Command in a statement ordered residents of the western neighbourhoods in Mosul to stay at homes as the helicopter gun-ships started airstrikes on positions of Militant groups believed to be associated with the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant, an al-Qaida breakaway group in Iraq.
06-09-2014, 03:42 AM
21 Iraqi policemen found dead after Mosul clashes
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