Within a four-minute span, Unit 10,000 (KH — affiliated) and Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibi (KSS — affiliated) posted near-identical notices of a speech by Sheikh Hassan al-Shabaki, described as commander of the Fourth Regiment in the 30th Brigade of the Nineveh Plain, delivered "now, after the arrival of the bodies of the martyrs in the capital Baghdad." Al-Ghadeer TV (Badr Organization — official) carried the same event with an added line of its own: "Following the arrival of the martyrs' bodies in Baghdad, Sheikh Hassan al-Shabaki affirms: the blood of our sons in the Nineveh Plain will not go in vain." The Asaib Ahl al-Haq statement issued minutes earlier mourns "the martyrdom of a number of the sons of the Popular Mobilization Forces" and calls the incident the targeting of an Iraqi security force inside Iraqi territory; press reporting the same hour described a bombardment that struck the Popular Mobilization Forces, with Iraqi factions promising a response. No supplied source names who carried out the strike, and no claim of responsibility appears in the collected material. Exact-text republication was also observed on Al-Ahad TV (official owned media) and Qais al-Khazali media office (official leader office).
Faction-side confirmation of dead personnel, delivered by a named brigade-level commander rather than a press office, fixes the loss inside a specific Nineveh Plain command that the same networks are now discussing a response for.