One of the Iraqi citizens reportedly saw the terrorist elements hiding on his farm and shooting them with a Kalashnikov gun and controlled to kill two of the terrorists, the Iraqi army’s media office said in a statement.
After the shooting, terrorist elements fired an RPG bullet at the Iraqi citizen, leading to his martyrdom, it added.
Then the ISIL terrorists tried to escape, but with the timely intervention of the Iraqi PMU forces, also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, the two ISIL terrorists were surrounded and in this incident, a total of 4 ISIL terrorists were killed.
Iraqi security forces announced that two of the ISIL terrorists had explosive belts and bombs for them and intended to carry out terrorist operations in that province.
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