Iraq PM vows retaliation after IS chemical attack
March 12, 2016  23:14
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi vowed today to retaliate against the Islamic State group after it launched a chemical attack on a town near Kirkuk. 

The suspected mustard gas attack on Taza that left a three-year-old girl dead "will not go unpunished", the premier said in a statement.
A large number of rockets were fired at Taza on Wednesday from the nearby village of Bashir, which is held by the jihadists.
Intelligence experts are still analysing samples, but local officials believe mustard agent was used in the attack on Taza, which lies just south of the city of Kirkuk and is around 220 kilometres north of Baghdad.
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