BAGHDAD, Iraq, Mar 2 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi security forces, on Friday, found bodies of five civilians abducted by the Daesh militants in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, a local official said.
“The troops found bodies of five civilians riddled with bullets in their heads and bodies, in the desert in the south-east of the town of Rutba, some 280 km west of the provincial capital, Ramadi,” Imad al-Dulaimi, mayor of Rutba, said.
The abducted victims are from the towns of Rutba and al-Nukhib, some 300 km south-west of Ramadi, al-Dulaimi added.
The Daesh militants are still active in the vast Anbar desert that stretches to the borders with neighbouring Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, as many civilians have been kidnapped or killed by the extremist group recently.
