Dozens Of Iraqi Students Taken Hostage

**bb1** Sat Jun 07, 2014 10:37 am

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Dozens Of Iraqi Students Taken Hostage
Gunman storm a university, kill its guards and blow up a bridge leading to the main gate, police say.

Dozens of students have been taken hostage after militants stormed a university campus in Iraq.

They infiltrated the site by killing the guards and then blew up a bridge leading to the main gate, police said.

Gunmen from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group detained the students inside a dormitory, according to officials.

The attack took place at Anbar University near Ramadi, which is west of the capital Baghdad.

Security forces have now cordoned off the campus.

Parts of Ramadi have been held by Islamic extremists and other anti-government militants for months amid fighting with security forces.

The attack is the third major operation by militants in as many days.

It follows an assault on the city of Samarra on Thursday and heavy fighting and suicide bombings in northern Iraq on Friday.

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