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| Iraq |
| Jihadists kill dozens in north Iraq 'massacre': officials |
| 2014-08-17 |
| [DAWN] Jihadists carried out a "massacre" in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho, killing dozens of people, most of them members of the Yazidi religious minority, officials said on Saturday. Jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) group are carrying out attacks against minorities in Iraq's Nineveh province, prompting tens of thousands of people to flee. "We have information from multiple sources, in the region and through intelligence, that (on Friday) afternoon, a convoy of (IS) gunnies entered this village," senior Iraqi official Hoshyar Zebari told AFP. "They took their Dire Revenge™ on its inhabitants, who happened to be mostly Yazidis who did not flee their homes," Zebari said, referring to a religious community regarded as heretics by jihadists. "They committed a massacre against the people," he said. "Around 80 of them have been killed." Harim Kamal Agha, a bigwig of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party in Dohuk province, which borders Nineveh, put the corpse count at 81 and said the holy warriors had taken women to prisons they control. And Mohsen Tawwal, a Yazidi fighter, told AFP by telephone that he saw a large number of bodies in the village. "We made it into a part of Kocho village, where residents were under siege, but we were too late," he said. "There were corpses everywhere. We only managed to get two people out alive. The rest had all been killed." |
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| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-17 16:54 |