(Previous Incident Code: I412)

Local residents and security sources reported that up to 33 civilians (mostly former Iraqi and police officers) died after Coalition airstrikes targeted the railway station at the right side of Mosul.

The sources reported that the Coalition had ‘mistakenly’ targeted the train station, which killed up to 33 people (25 -33 civilians and eight ISIL members). Most of the victims were former members of the security services, of the Iraqi army and the police. They were detained in the station which ISIL was using as a temporary prison.

Anadolu News cited Major Major Abdullah al-Humam al-Mayahi of the Iraqi Federal Police as saying that “ISIL militants had detained in the early morning hours of Monday, about 41 men who were formerly part of the security service.” The men had been bought to the train station for questioning. According to Major al-Mayahi, a Coalition strike “caused the deaths of about 33 detainees and wounding eight others, as well as killing and injuring several (unspecified) Daesh militants organize Daesh and destroying some of their vehicles.”