Border guard killed in clashes with traffickers in Ninewa

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: A border guard was killed in clashes with traffickers in west of Mosul on Monday, according to a security source. “Clashes flared up on Monday afternoon between border guards and traffickers on the Iraqi-Syrian borders, west of Mosul, during which a guard was killed,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. He did not give more details. Mosul, the capital of Ninewa, is 405 km north of Baghdad. SH (TP) 827