Iraqi power station workers killed by Islamic State militants in Kirkuk counter-attack

Record ID: 84179

  • Title: Iraqi power station workers killed by Islamic State militants in Kirkuk counter-attack
  • Date: 21st October 2016
  • Summary: PESHMERGA FIGHTERS WALKING THROUGH POWER STATION COMPLEX
  • Embargoed: 5th November 2016 15:08
  • Keywords: Dibis power station Kirkuk Iraq Islamic State assault attack
  • Location: DIBIS POWER STATION, KIRKUK, IRAQ
  • City: DIBIS POWER STATION, KIRKUK, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA00354Y8NRB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES
    EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3
    Islamic State militants attacked several Iraqi police buildings and the Dibis power station on Friday (October 21) in a major counter-attack on Kirkuk.
    Islamic State's assault on Kirkuk, which lies in an oil- producing region, killed 18 members of the security forces and power station workers outside the city, including two Iranians, a hospital source said.
    A dead Islamic State militant and several killed power station workers were seen at the Dibis site.
    At least eight militants were killed in the Kirkuk offensive, either by blowing themselves up or in clashes with the security forces, security sources said. Kurdish forces had dislodged the militants from all the police and public buildings they had seized before dawn, they said.
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