As a result of the air strike of the international coalition forces in the Iraqi city of Mosul, more than 100 people were killed.

Baghdad was informed that the air strike was caused at the request of the Iraqi military authorities. The local military received information that on three buildings, which had become the target of the raid, snipers. The fact that in the basement houses can hide peaceful residents in Baghdad did not know.

The air strike was struck on Thursday, March 23, as a result of which three buildings were destroyed. Only from under the debris of one of them were the bodies of more than 80 people removed.

In connection with the death of civilians, the US command began an investigation.

The Pentagon argues that it could be both a coalition air strike and the terrorist attack of the "Islamic state", and promise to provide more complete data later.

According to various sources, the total number of victims of an air raid can reach from 150 to 200 people.

Iraqi troops repulsed from the IGIL militants two more districts in the western part of Mosul, according to the media of the Ministry of Defense of the country. The elite anti-terrorist forces of the Iraqi army were beaten by Islamists from the districts of al-Ressalu and Shukak-Nablus.