23 October,2016 11:50 AM IST | | Agencies
Iraqi security forces have killed 48 of the gunmen who stormed parts of Kirkuk in a shock attack claimed by the IS group, the city’s police chief said
Kurdish security forces detain a suspected IS member. Pic/AFP
Kirkuk: Iraqi security forces have killed 48 of the gunmen who stormed parts of Kirkuk in a shock attack claimed by the IS group, the city's police chief said.
"Forty-eight Daesh (IS) terrorists have been killed in the clashes," Brigadier General Khattab Omar Aref said, adding that some of them blew themselves up when the security forces cornered them. Special counter-terrorism and intelligence units were hunting down some of the dozens of IS fighters who stormed public buildings in the early hours of Friday.
