Rudaw source: ISIS governor of Mosul wounded, not killed

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—The Islamic State (ISIS) governor of Mosul, Abu Talut was wounded in an American airstrike, a source inside the city told Rudaw, dismissing earlier reports that he had been killed.

The source said that Hassan Saeed al-Bubouri, known as Abu Talut was seriously wounded as his position was hit by a fighter jet and that he is being treated at Mosul’s al-Jamhuri Hospital.

Abu Talut was appointed governor (Wali) earlier this month after his predecessor Radhwan Hamdouni known as Abu Laith, was killed along with the group’s military commander in an airstrike near Mosul.

The radical group changed the name of Mosul to Wilayat Naynawa (Nineveh State) after declaring the Islamic State in July.

US military officials said last week that Haji Mutazz, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's deputy, Abd al-Basit, ISIS’s military commander in Iraq; and the governor of Mosul were killed in an airstrike.