BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 9 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi forces killed four Daesh militants, in the country’s western province of al-Anbar, while a policeman and a child were killed, in the central province of Salahudin, security sources said.
The Iraqi army, backed by paramilitary tribal fighters, clashed with the militants at a desert area, west of the town of Haditha, some 200 km north-west of Baghdad.
In a separate incident, a mortar round landed on a security checkpoint, east of the town of Shirqat, some 280 km north of Baghdad, killing a policeman and an eleven-year-old school child, said Mohammed al-Bazi, from Salahudin Provincial Police Command.
The school boy was in the checkpoint waiting for a car to take him to his village, after he left his school, Bazi said.– NNN-NINA
