Islamic State shells Turkmen village with chemical weapons
Date
5/3/2016 12:09:46 PM
(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Members from the Iraqi Kurdish and Turkmen Shiite forces walk in the northern Iraqi town of Bashir after they recaptured the town from the Islamic State (IS) group on May 1 2016. Pressure for an operation to retake the town had grown in March after IS launched a chemical attack from Bashir on the nearby town of Taza that killed at least three children.AFP / Mohammed SAWAF
BAGHDAD: The terrorist Islamic State group has attacked a Turkmen village in northern Iraq with chemical weapons sources in a pro-government militia said.
"IS militants have shelled the Bashir village with chemicals" Yalmiz Shehab a commander of the Shia Hashd al-Shaabi militia told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday.
According to Shehab eight people were injured in the attack including one seriously.
The Kurdish peshmerga forces and Hashd al-Shaabi militiamen had recaptured the village from IS last week.
Shehab said the village has been cleared from all IS terrorists.
The village which has a Turkmen majority was captured by IS in 2014. Most of its residents fled the village and took refuge in Kirkuk only 25 kilometers away.
In March IS terrorists had gassed the northern city of Tuz Khormato killing three Turkmens and injuring hundreds.
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