Two roadside bombs struck a convoy carrying Iraqi families fleeing an ISIS-controlled town in the north of the country late on Friday, killing 18 people, a police officer said. According to Reuters, the bombs targeted a truck carrying people from Hawija, about 120 km (75 miles) south of ISIS stronghold in Mosul, as they were being taken to the town of Al Alam, next to the Tigris river. Seventeen of the dead were from the displaced families, regional police Colonel Nemaa al-Jabouri told Reuters. One policeman in an accompanying patrol car was also killed.
