2018-06-13
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SULAIMANI – Three booby-trapped houses exploded on Wednesday (June 13) in the Old Mosul neighborhood killing 27 people, said Nineveh Police.
The victims had recently returned to their houses which are believed to have been booby-trapped by the Islamic State (ISIS) militants before their defeat in Mosul.
The bomb disposal teams had not yet cleared the houses from bombs, said Ahmed Obeidi spokesman of Nineveh Police.
There were women and children among the dead, he added.
ISIS’ self-proclaimed "caliphate" effectively collapsed when US-backed Iraqi forces completed the takeover of the militants' capital in Mosul, after a nine-month campaign.
Clearing civilian houses and neighborhoods in Mosul from explosives is ongoing.
(NRT)