7 members of al-Hashed al-Shaabi killed, wounded in mortar shell fall south of Baiji
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(IraqiNews.com) Salah AL-Dien – A security source in the leadership of Salah al-Din Operations announced on Sunday, that seven members of al-Hashed al-Shaabi militia had been either killed or wounded in the fall of a mortar shell south of Baiji north of Tikrit (170 km north of Baghdad).
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “A mortar shell landed, this morning, in the village of al-Salam south of Baiji, (40 km north of Tikrit), resulting in the death of three elements of al-Hashed al-Shaabi and wounding four others. ”
The Media War Cell of the Joint Special Operations Command announced on Tuesday (20 October 2015) the liberation of city of Baiji, after inflecting heavy losses in lives and equipment upon ISIS ranks in Salahaddin and Anbar.