Al-Sharqiya TV reported unknown armed men separated 7 Turkman youths from a group of people in the Amili village and murdered them in another area. The youths were swimming before being abducted.
Arshad Salehi, President of the Turkman Front issued a statement saying targeting Turkman youths in Amili village in Salahaddin Province and abducting other Turkmans in Kirkuk all have pre-planned political objectives.
Kirkuk security sources said in another incident unknown armed forces opened fire on innocent civilians and murdered 8 people in the main road from Tuz Khormatu to Marli and Suleiman-Back.
“Unknown armed men murdered a colonel with silencer-equipped guns in his home in the city of Abu-Qoraib, west of Baghdad,” al-Sharqiya TV added.
In Mosul, 4 people were killed and injured after a roadside bomb blast.
Also, unknown gunmen murdered an official of Mosul’s Regularizing Office. The spokesman of the Regularizing Office told al-Sharqiya TV, “Ayad Hossein was going to work when he was attacked outside of his home in the al-Qadessiya region, east of Mosul.”