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Air strikes kills 120 Iraqi civilians

An air strike targeting an Islamic State-held town in western Iraq near the Syrian border has killed 120 civilians, an Iraqi official says.

Air strikes on an Iraqi town held by the Islamic State extremist militia have killed 120 civilians, an Iraqi member of parliament says.

Some 170 others have been injured in the bombing, which took place on Wednesday in the town of Qaim near the border with Syria, lawmaker Fares al-Fares said.

The strikes targeted the main marketplace in the town located about 500 kilometres west of Baghdad.

"We have got information that the air raids were carried out by Iraqi planes," al-Fares said, without giving details.

There has been no official comment in Baghdad.

Earlier reports estimated that at least 66 people had been killed and 88 injured in the strikes.

In recent months, Iraq, supported by a US-led air coalition, has stepped up a military campaign to dislodge Islamic State from territory it seized in a lightning attack in mid-2014.


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