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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) announced that the number of people attacked with mustard gas in Taza Khurmatu, south of Kirkuk province in northern Iraq, have exceeded 400 people, after radicals of the Islamic State (ISIS) hit the area with missiles carrying chemical substances on the town.
“The number of people attacked with poisonous gas in Taza Khurmatu reached 409 civilians after ISIS bombarded the area with missiles contain mustard gas and chemicals over the past two days,” Masrour Aswad, member of the Board of Commissioners, said in a press statement.