(MENAFN) More than 60 people are reported to have been killed in air strikes on an Islamic State-controlled Iraqi town that is close to the Syrian border.
In detail, witnesses said unidentified jets had targeted the centre of al-Qaim, about 300km (186 miles) north-west of Baghdad, late on Wednesday afternoon.
One strike had missed a mosque used by IS militants as a headquarters and hit residential buildings, they added.
Nineteen children and 12 women were among the casualties, a medic said.
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