Baghdad, June 5 (IANS) As many as 80 people were killed and 88 wounded in a string of attacks witnessed in different parts of Iraq Thursday, security and medical sources said. Also, Iraqi security forces re-established their control of Samarra city in Salahudin province which was seized by Sunni insurgents in the morning, the sources added. As the troops carried out a major offensive, following fierce clashes, they managed to regain six neighbourhood in Samarra, some 120 km from Baghdad. These areas had been seized by groups believed to be linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL), an Al Qaeda breakaway group in Iraq, a source said.
06-09-2014, 03:42 AM
80 killed, about 90 injured in Iraq attacks
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