Twenty-two civilians were killed in Fallujah, a city of the western
"The victims include five women and two children," said Wessam al-Essawi, the spokesperson for the
He added that 36 more people, including 12 children and five women, were injured in the army's shelling of Fallujah residential areas.
The Iraqi army has not officially commented on the reported shelling.
The Iraqi army has been battling militants in Anbar since last December.
Hundreds of civilians in Fallujah and Ramadi, the provincial capital, have since been killed and injured, according to government officials.
Fallujah has been largely inaccessible to Iraqi security forces since militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) group – whom the government claims are linked to al-Qaeda – seized control of the city.
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