What the records say
- When
- 10 Jun 2014
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Killed
- 0
- Where
- Mosul, Nineveh
- Coordinates
- 36.35° N, 43.14° E
- Wounded
- 0
- Target
- Police
- Weapon
- Explosives, Firearms
- Outcome
- Carried out
- Claimed
- Yes, posted to website, blog, etc.
Summary
Assailants stormed a jail in Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. This was one of six coordinated attacks on the same day and one of three similar attacks targeting jails in the area. There were no reported casualties, although an unknown number of detainees were released across all three incidents. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attacks.
From the Global Terrorism Database’s own summary of the attack.
The source
- Global Terrorism DatabaseSTART, University of MarylandGTD terms of use: non-commercial, no redistribution
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