Iraqi troops find bodies of three abductees inside Mosul house
A displaced Iraqi man who fled from clashes, carries children in western Mosul, Iraq, June 3, 2017. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi security forces found on Tuesday corpses of three people inside a house in Mosul’s Old City, a police official was quoted as saying.
“The bodies are belonging to three people, who were kidnapped last week in Mosul’s Old City,” Major Jomaa Khaled told the Iraqi BasNews website.
“The security forces handed over the corpses to the forensic medicine department and opened a probe into the incident,” he added.
In December, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced gaining control on all the territories that were captured by Islamic State, since 2014. However, the group still has dormant cells, through which it carries out attacks, across Iraq like it used to do before 2014.
Hundreds of Iraqi civilians died during the battles between Islamic State militants and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces.
While the U.S.-led coalition had admitted causing civilian casualties in some occasions, Iraqi forces repeatedly denied involvement in botched strikes, with commanders reiterating civilians’ safety. Islamic State militants had also targeted and executed civilians who fled the battle fields.