NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq’s police forces have killed 3 armed men and arrested 3 others, east of the city of Mosul, the center of north Iraq’s Ninewa Province on Monday, a Ninewa security source reported.

“A Ninewa police force have killed three armed men and detained three others, in west Mosul’s al-Shuhadaa district early on Monday,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He said the police force had implemented its mission to detain the demanded men, “according to Article – 4 – Terrorism of the Iraqi Law, who clashed with the force that killed 3 of them and arrested 3 others.”

Mosul, the center of Ninewa Province, is 405 km to the north of Baghdad.

SKH (ST)