BAGHDAD: Militants seized part of the Iraqi town of Dhuluiyah on Sunday in fighting that killed six people, an official said, as a new drive towards the capital entered its third day.

Four policemen were among the dead in the fighting for the town, which the militants took in a lightning offensive last month before its recapture by government forces in one of their rare successes of the conflict, district official Marwan Mitaab said.

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