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URGENT: 30 killed in mosque east of Baquba by ISIL

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ISIL gunmen. File photo.

Baquba (IraqiNews.com) On Friday, according to a police source in Diyala province, more than 30 civilians had been killed and wounded in an armed attack targeted worshipers at a mosque east of Baquba.

The source said, in an interview for IraqiNews.com, that “an armed group stormed, in the afternoon, the mosque of Musab bin Omair in the area of ​​ Hamrin (70 km east of Baquba).They shot toward who were inside the mosque, killing and wounding more of 30 civilians”.

The source, who requested anonymity, added that “the crime comes in the context of the bloody incidents of violence taking place in several areas of the province, constantly.”

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