Iraqi commander wounded in mortar attack south of Mosul
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TIKRIT -- An Iraqi military commander was wounded and one of his bodyguards killed when ISIS militants fired mortar shells at his convoy south of Mosul on Sunday, officers from the local military command told Reuters.
They said a convoy carrying Lieutenant-General Jumaa Inad, head of operations in Salahuddin province, came under attack near the town of Shirqat where Iraqi forces are fighting to retake an Islamic State-held enclave.
He had wounds to his head and arm and was flown to a hospital in Erbil, they said.
Inad was visiting troops in the village of Ganous, on the eastern bank of the Tigris river about 90 km south of Mosul.
