BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Iraqi security forces, found bodies of six civilians, abducted the day before, by Daesh militants in Iraq’s western province of Anbar.
Security forces launched a search operation during the day, to track eight civilians abducted on Monday by Daesh extremist militants in the desert, near the town of al-Nukhib, some 300 km south-west of the provincial capital, Ramadi.
“The troops found bodies of six civilians riddled with bullets in their heads and bodies, who were civilians abducted by the extremist Daesh militants,” the source said.
The source put the number of abducted civilians near al-Nukhib, on Monday, at ten. One was immediately shot dead by the militants; nine were kidnapped, with the six bodies found and the destiny of the three others still unknown.
Late on Monday, a source from Anbar’s provincial police command reportedly said that, the militants abducted eight civilians and executed one of them before they dragged the seven others to unknown destination.
For his part, Abdullah al-Enezi, head of al-Enezah tribe, which dwells in the town of al-Nukhib, said that, “the six bodies are of truffle collectors, who came to the desert from the cities of Karbala, Anbar and Diwaniyah.”
Earlier on Tuesday, Iraqi security forces carried out an operation in the early morning hours and freed five truffle collectors, who were kidnapped four days ago, by the extremist militants in Anbar desert, near the town of Rawa, some 280 km north-west of the capital Baghdad.
The Daesh militants are still active in the vast Anbar desert that stretches to the borders with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, as many civilians have been kidnapped or killed by the extremist group recently.– NNN-AGENCIES
