IS shoots down Iraqi army helicopter killing one

18 Feb, 2016

The Islamic State jihadist group shot down an Iraqi military helicopter west of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least one person, officials said. The helicopter - the second lost by Iraq in two days - went down near Amriyat al-Fallujah, though officials differed on the exact location. An Iraqi army aviation captain said that the Bell helicopter was shot down with a Dushka heavy machine gun, killing one crew member and wounding a second, who was rescued by another helicopter.
Lieutenant Colonel Arif al-Janabi, the police chief for Amriyat al-Fallujah, said that IS shot the helicopter down, putting the death toll at two. Shakir al-Essawi, the head of the area's local council, confirmed Janabi's account.

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