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This Article is From Jun 15, 2014

6 Killed as Iraq Civilian Volunteer Centre Shelled

6 Killed as Iraq Civilian Volunteer Centre Shelled
Iraqi men who volunteered to join the fight against a major offensive by jihadists in northern Iraq stand on army trucks as they leave a recruiting center in the capital Baghdad on June 13, 2014.
Baquba: Mortar shells on Sunday smashed into a central Iraq recruitment centre for civilians volunteering to fight a militant offensive, killing six people, police and a doctor said.

Among those killed in the shelling in the town of Khales, five kilometres (three miles) north of the Diyala provincial capital Baquba, were three soldiers and three other people, the sources said.

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