Booby trap explosion kills eight at school in Iraqi village
Eight tribal fighters of an Iraqi paramilitary unit have been killed in a booby trap blast near the northern city of Mosul.
Jabbar al-Maamuri, a commander of Iraq's tribal fighters, said on Sunday that the attack was carried out at a school in the village of Majarine, which is located 20 kilometers (12 miles) west of Mosul.
More than a dozen others were injured. The school was being used as a training center and it had been booby-trapped by the Daesh Takfiri terrorists, the commander said.
The village was retaken from Daesh in early July as Iraqi forces closed in on Mosul.
The Sunday explosion is the latest example of dangers left behind by the retreating Daesh terrorists.
In another such deadly incident in newly recaptured areas, six members with the paramilitary troops of Hashd al-Sha'abi were killed on Saturday in Akashat in the western province of Anbar.
In July, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi formally declared victory over Daesh in Mosul, which served as the terrorists’ main urban stronghold in the conflict-ridden Arab country.
In the run-up to Mosul's liberation, Iraqi army soldiers and volunteer fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units had made sweeping gains against Daesh since launching the operation on October 17, 2016.
The city, located some 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of the capital Baghdad, fell to Daesh in June 2014.
The full recapture of Mosul, Daesh’s de facto capital in the Arab country, has proven to be the effective end of the terror group in Iraq.
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