Separate incidents kill 6 in Iraq's post-Daesh Mosul

NINEVEH, Iraq

Three civilians and two policemen have been killed in separate acts of violence in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul -- freshly recaptured from the Daesh terrorist group -- within the past 24 hours, local police sources said Wednesday.

“Three civilians, including one woman, were killed, and another four, including two women and a child, were injured when a bomb went off in Mosul’s Ras al-Jadah district,” Federal Police Major-General Sattar al-Ansari told Anadolu Agency.

Al-Ansari added that a police officer had been killed when an explosive projectile -- presumably left in the city by Daesh -- detonated in Mosul’s Al-Iqtisadiyin neighborhood, while another civilian was killed by a stray bullet in the city’s Al-Jawsaq district.

Also on Wednesday, Hussein al-Azzawi, a Mosul-based police major-general, told Anadolu Agency that another police officer had been killed late Tuesday when a Daesh militant -- who, he said, was later killed -- attacked their checkpoint in Mosul’s Al-Zanjili area.

In early July, following a nine-month-long army campaign, Iraqi forces decisively dislodged Daesh from Mosul, which the terrorist group overran in 2014 along with extensive territories in northern and western Iraq.

In late July, the International Organization for Migration announced that more than 830,000 people had been displaced from Daesh-held Mosul as a direct result of the fighting.

Iraq’s Planning Ministry, for its part, recently declared that a whopping 80 percent of Mosul’s infrastructure had been destroyed during the army’s campaign to retake the city.

Reporting by Serhad Shakir and Mohamed Walid; Writing by Mahmoud Barakat