Elderly Shrine Tender Among Eight Killed in Iraq

by | Feb 16, 2019 | 0 Comments

At least eight people were killed and one other was wounded:

In Khalis, the body of an 80-year-old man who supervised the Sayed Yousef shrine was found with gunshot wounds to his head.

A pair of shepherds was killed, and another was wounded when the men came across a landmine near Fallujah.

A bomb in Kirkuk killed a shepherd.

An airstrike killed four militants in the Waqf Basin.

Margaret Griffis is a journalist from Miami Beach, Florida and has been covering Iraqi casualties for Antiwar.com since 2006.

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