What the records say
- When
- 12 Jun 2014
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Killed
- 1,570
- Where
- Tikrit, Saladin
- Coordinates
- 34.62° N, 43.67° E
- Attack
- Hostage Taking (Kidnapping), Armed Assault
- Target
- Military
- Weapon
- Firearms
- Outcome
- Carried out
- Claimed
- Yes, posted to website, blog, etc.
Summary
Assailants abducted approximately 1686 soldiers from Camp Speicher in Tikrit city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Two captives escaped custody and at least 1570, if not all of the remaining victims, are presumed dead. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility and stated that the attacks were in revenge for the killing of ISIL leader Abdul-Rahman al-Beilawy.
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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