Attacks on Iraq prisons killed 41 people: officials

At least 41 people were killed in clashes that raged overnight after militants launched coordinated attacks on two Iraqi prisons in an attempt to free inmates, officials said Monday.

July 22, 2013

Sahoub Baghdadi

 


 


BAGHDAD - At least 41 people were killed in clashes that raged overnight after militants launched coordinated attacks on two Iraqi prisons in an attempt to free inmates, officials said Monday.



At least 20 members of the Iraqi security forces and 21 prisoners died in the violence, the officials said, without providing any figures for casualties among the assailants. — AFP


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