2,225 Iranians Killed in Battle, Iraq Claims
From Reuters
BAGHDAD, Iraq —
The Iraqi government said Thursday that its forces killed 2,225 Iranian troops and captured dozens in fierce fighting in the northern sector of the war front.
Baghdad television showed film of hundreds of corpses of what it said were Iranians killed in the north on Wednesday. The Iraqi claims could not be independently confirmed.
A communique from the Iraqi high command said the Iraqis also shot down two Iranian helicopter gunships Thursday in the Haj Omran area, three miles from the northern tip of the front.
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