Kirkuk police thwart new ISIS plan to attack the province
Iraqi security forces. File photo.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – Kirkuk Police Command announced on Wednesday thwarting a new terrorist plan to attack governmental institutions in the province and arresting the perpetrators.
Brigadier General Omar Aref, Kirkuk Police Chief, said in a statement during a press conference at the Command’s headquarters, “Security forces managed to foil a terrorist plan of a group of six people to attack the state’s institutions in the province.”
“The perpetrators were arrested and transferred to a detention center for interrogation,” Aref added.
Earlier this week, security forces in the province of Kirkuk arrested seven members of the Islamic State, and killed seven others by a coalition air strike, in southern Kirkuk.
ISIS attacked Kirkuk on the 21st of October 2016, and managed to capture several areas, before security forces foil the attack and retake the captured areas.