https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/24072022
MANSURIYAH, Iraq – Five civilians were killed and three others wounded in an attack by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Iraq’s Diyala province on Thursday after being ambushed.
The victims were all from the same family and were ambushed by a group of six ISIS militants after returning from a swim in Lake Hamrin, who stopped their vehicle just outside of Mansuriyah town and opened fire.
“This incident is a terrorist attack. Two of my brothers and our uncle along with their children, one of them was five years old and the other seven years old, were killed,” Izzadin Ahmed, the brother of the deceased told Rudaw’s Hunar Hamid.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack shortly after….
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted three attacks in Iraq from July 14 to July 20, killing and injuring 13 people.
MANSURIYAH, Iraq – Five civilians were killed and three others wounded in an attack by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Iraq’s Diyala province on Thursday after being ambushed.
The victims were all from the same family and were ambushed by a group of six ISIS militants after returning from a swim in Lake Hamrin, who stopped their vehicle just outside of Mansuriyah town and opened fire.
“This incident is a terrorist attack. Two of my brothers and our uncle along with their children, one of them was five years old and the other seven years old, were killed,” Izzadin Ahmed, the brother of the deceased told Rudaw’s Hunar Hamid.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack shortly after….
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted three attacks in Iraq from July 14 to July 20, killing and injuring 13 people.
