SMC announces investigating into the terrorist attack in Kirkuk

INA-  Baghdad


The Security Media Cell SMC announced on Sunday the investigation into the circumstances of the terrorist attack in the Dibs district in Kirkuk.
 
SMC said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "After the painful blows and qualitative operations carried out by our armed forces, which inflicted heavy losses on the members of the terrorist ISIS gangs and killed a large group of their leaders, these defeated gangs are trying to prove their presence, which has not and will not return again thanks to the military and security services."
 
"Yesterday, ISIS terrorist elements attacked a point belonging to the 32nd Brigade of the 8th Division of the Iraqi army near the village of Tal al-Ward in al-Dibs district in Kirkuk province, killing two officers and wounding three soldiers," it said.

It continued, "The deputy commander of joint operations, Lieutenant General Qais al-Muhammadawi, arrived in Kirkuk to oversee the attack and inspect the wounded, and a joint investigation committee arrived to find out the circumstances of the incident and its merits and to find out its causes," explaining that "security leaders and concerned authorities held a meeting to find out the details of this treacherous incident and collect information to reach the terrorist elements that carried out this cowardly act."