IS chief Baghdadi injured: reports
London, Jun 10, 2016, (PTI):
Islamic State’s dreaded chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been wounded in an air strike by coalition forces on one of the outfit's command headquarters close to the Syrian border in Iraq, media reports said on Thursday.
Iraqi news channel Al Sumariya TV claimed that local sources in Iraq's Nineveh province had confirmed that Baghdadi and other leaders in the Islamist group were wounded in the Thursday’s coalition bombing raid. “The planes of the international coalition yesterday (Thursday) bombed a location where there is a base of IS members along the border area between Iraq and Syria, 65 kilometres west of Nineveh,” Express UK quoted an Iraqi source as saying.
According to reports, Baghdadi was injured along with IS members during a meeting. “The attack was carried out on the basis of precise intelligence information that led to strike its own site,” the source said.
The area is one of the group's strongholds, the source said, adding that “Baghdadi and the other IS leaders arrived in Iraq from Syria with a convoy of cars”.
A spokesman for the US-led coalition said that he had seen the reports but had “nothing to confirm this at this time”, the report said. In recent years there have been a number of reports of Baghdadi’s injury, and even death, but none have been confirmed.
Baghdadi was seriously wounded by an airstrike on March 18, 2015.He was said to be receiving treatment for spinal injuries after being wounded in that strike.
Iraqi news channel Al Sumariya TV claimed that local sources in Iraq's Nineveh province had confirmed that Baghdadi and other leaders in the Islamist group were wounded in the Thursday’s coalition bombing raid. “The planes of the international coalition yesterday (Thursday) bombed a location where there is a base of IS members along the border area between Iraq and Syria, 65 kilometres west of Nineveh,” Express UK quoted an Iraqi source as saying.
According to reports, Baghdadi was injured along with IS members during a meeting. “The attack was carried out on the basis of precise intelligence information that led to strike its own site,” the source said.
The area is one of the group's strongholds, the source said, adding that “Baghdadi and the other IS leaders arrived in Iraq from Syria with a convoy of cars”.
A spokesman for the US-led coalition said that he had seen the reports but had “nothing to confirm this at this time”, the report said. In recent years there have been a number of reports of Baghdadi’s injury, and even death, but none have been confirmed.
Baghdadi was seriously wounded by an airstrike on March 18, 2015.He was said to be receiving treatment for spinal injuries after being wounded in that strike.
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