Tikrit process .. progress is fraught with mines and booby and suicide bombers through tunnels
Tikrit process .. progress is fraught with mines and booby and suicide bombers through tunnels
15-03-2015 03:05 PM
Booby-trapped cars, streets and homes mined, impede the progress of government forces towards the depth of Tikrit, and as the government asserts near Ahzar victory, stresses, official sources in Salahuddin province to regulate Daash still able to surprise attack by suicide bombers and through tunnels.
Hence, it seems that the military operations in the city of Tikrit, faces a number of field difficulties that impede the progress of the government forces and factions of the supporting crowd to complete control of the province of Salahuddin.
and still organizing Daash terrorist controls the presidential compound in the city of Tikrit, and three other neighborhoods at least disrupt the army offered through snipers and bomb blasts , according sources in the field.
High-ranking officials in Salahuddin province, and is likely to drag on the battle of Tikrit, where the extremist organization still startles government forces Pantharien cars mined through tunnels newly established.
But the deputy chairman of the security committee in the provincial council, Khaled Jassam, downplayed there are some suicide bombers, and confirmed that the Tikrit become militarily controlled by government forces rule.
This comes at the gunmen attacked a military base located on a road in the south-west of the city of Salahuddin Samarra, and the attack lasted for hours, and use the Army Aviation.
Government forces the city of Tikrit and surrounded in Waiting for the start of the attack on militants organize Daash.
For his part, favored the Chairman of the Board of Salahuddin province, Ahmed Karim, that ‘forces in control of Tikrit delayed because of the presence of a large number of car bombs and suicide bombers and mine the streets and houses and electricity poles. ”
said Karim, in a press statement, I came across it (the news), said: ‘Tikrit is not the desert, where many buildings had holed up inside the gunmen and difficult to wipe them out. ”
Perhaps this is in line with the Tomb defense minister, Khalid al-Obeidi, during a field visit to the province of Salahuddin, that the time is not important to the losses that may incurred by government forces.
He said ‘We are very keen that our losses are minimal, and the time in our hands, we are the owners of the initiative. ”
Meanwhile, a member of the provincial council, Khaz’al Hammad, in a press statement, seen by the (news): The gunmen in Tikrit what still fighting, and it is difficult to determine the areas controlled by the two parties, because the battles ‘hit and run’ continues.
bombers and tunnels
, and added that the organization uses tunnels filed in for control of the city since last June, pointing out that ‘the gunmen surprised government forces and suicide bombers and car mined’ , he said.
It is by means of its media, claimed the terrorist organization he was able ‘to respond to an attack on the city of Tikrit, on the one hand Qadisiyah neighborhood, north of the city, and the burning of more than 6 vehicles Hummer, killing and injuring dozens of them led to their retreat’.
According to this means the same, extremist organization has claimed ‘response to an attempted attack on the city of Tikrit, on the west side, and the destruction and damage of more than 20 mechanism by trying to’ incursion into the city, he said.
The organization announced a car bomb in an army factions crowd gatherings when trying to progress towards the city of Tikrit from Aldiom area, and claimed the destruction of a tank and a number of mechanisms and the killing and wounding dozens.
In parallel, reduced Deputy Chairman of the Security Committee in the House of Salahuddin province, Khalid grave, of the importance of a car bomb attack ‘liberated forces’ or barricaded gunmen inside buildings in Tikrit.
He said the grave in a press statement, seen by the (news): The security forces controlled largely on Tikrit, leaving nothing but some militants holed up in the presidential palaces near the Tigris River.
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