Air raid near Iraq's Kirkuk kills 15 women: Officials

AFP , Friday 21 Oct 2016

An air strike killed 15 women on Friday at a shrine near the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, local officials and medics said.

"Fifteen women were killed and another 50 wounded in a raid that targeted a Shia place of worship at Dakuk," local official Amir Huda Karam told AFP, a toll confirmed by medical officials.

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