The Islamic State group has been shooting at civilians as they try to flee the nearly two-week battle between Iraqi government forces and IS militants in the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, an international aid organization and Iraqi military say. On Sunday, the militants shot and killed seven civilians and seven IS defectors inside Fallujah as they attempted to flee, Iraqi Maj. Ali Hanoon said. Hanoon, who is with the elite Iraqi counterterrorism forces, yesterday put the number of civilians killed by IS since the operation started at “dozens” but declined to be more specific, saying the information coming out of Fallujah is sporadic and often incomplete. Iraqi officials say the total is likely higher.
Spain | Italian, Russian found dead on yacht moored in resort
Police say they are investigating the deaths of an Italian man and a Russian woman found inside a motorized yacht moored in the Spanish resort town of Roses. An official with Catalonia’s regional police says there was no indication of foul play but that autopsies were being conducted yesterday to determine the cause of death. The official says the man was 46 and the woman was 28 but that authorities were releasing no more information about the two because their deaths were not considered suspicious.
Turkey | 14 people killed in school trip bus crash
A bus carrying school children, teachers and parents has plunged into an irrigation canal in southern Turkey, killing 14 people — six of them children, officials and reports said yesterday. Twenty-six other people were injured in the accident which occurred late Sunday as the bus was returning from a school trip to a national park and museum in the southern province of Osmaniye, Gov. Kerem Al said. Security camera video of the accident showed the bus driving into oncoming traffic at an intersection, being slammed by a car and rolling into the canal. By-passers and residents jumped into the canal to try and rescue people trapped inside the bus, Hurriyet newspaper reported. Most of the bodies were recovered by divers.
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