(VOVworld) - The Iraqi military on Sunday blamed the Islamic State (ISIS) group for the killing of dozens of civilians at a house in west Mosul, said Iraq’s Joint Operations Command. They denied that the house was bombed by coalition airstrikes.

Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) personnel patrol in al-Resala, western Mosul on March 21. (Photo: AFP/VNA)

According to their statement, a team of experts was dispatched to the scene and discovered that all the walls of the house had been booby-trapped by ISIS militants. They also found the remains of a large booby-trapped truck outside the house.