08:00 16/06/2015
Mosul - The forensic medicine authority in the Islamic
State-controlled northern Iraqi city of Mosul has received the bodies of
122 Islamic State insurgents in 24 hours, an official with the
authority said on Monday.
Most of the dead were fighters of
various nationalities killed in an air strike conducted south of Mosul
by the US-led alliance against the extremist group, the official told
dpa on condition of anonymity.
The official added that the Islamic
State had told the forensic authority in Mosul not to record or to
reveal the number of dead.
Dozens
of Islamic State militants injured during offensives against the
extremist group are currently receiving treatment at Mosul hospitals,
the official said.
Islamic State captured Mosul, Iraq's
second-largest city, last summer at the start of a lightning offensive
that saw it seize much of Sunni Arab northern and western Iraq.
Kurdish
and Iraqi security forces backed by US-led air strikes have pushed the
jihadists back from some of the areas they captured, but in May the
group seized the western provincial capital of Ramadi.
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