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Daesh ‘executes’ at least 15 civilians in Mosul — officials
By AFP - Apr 25,2017 - Last updated at Apr 25,2017
BAGHDAD —Extremist militants from the Daesh terror group posing as liberating security forces killed at least 15 civilians who welcomed them in central Mosul, officials said on Tuesday.
Wearing police uniforms, they entered parts of the Old City on Monday to trick residents into showing their support for the federal forces, the Joint Operations Command (JOC) and a local official said.
"Daesh terrorist gangs committed a brutal crime yesterday morning in an area of Mosul's Old City," the JOC said in a statement.
It said the extremists, who are defending their last Mosul bastions against a huge six-month-old offensive by the security forces, wanted to "confound civilians who expressed joy and welcomed them with chanting".
They killed women and children, the JOC said, “to make it clear the area was still under enemy control”.
The statement did not specify how many were killed in that manner but Hossameddin Al Abbar, a member of Nineveh provincial council, told AFP at least 15 civilians were shot dead.
“Daesh members, some of them wearing federal police uniforms, entered Al Maidan and Corniche areas of the Old City,” he said.
“They were driving black vehicles and posing as liberators from the Iraqi forces,” Abbar added.
“When some families welcomed them, they arrested several of them. They executed at least 15 other people,” he said.
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