Iraq says 322 tribe members killed, many bodies dumped in well

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02-11-2014 | 06:31
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Iraq says 322 tribe members killed, many bodies dumped in well
Islamic State militants have killed 322 members of an Iraqi tribe in western Anbar province, including dozens of women and children whose bodies were dumped in a well, the government said in the first official confirmation of the scale of the massacre.       

The systematic killings, which one tribal leader said were continuing on Sunday, marked some of the worst bloodshed in Iraq since the Sunni militants swept through the north in June with the aim of establishing medieval caliphate there and in Syria.       

The Albu Nimr, also Sunni, had put up fierce resistance against Islamic State for weeks but finally ran low on ammunition, food and fuel last week as Islamic State fighters closed in on their village Zauiyat Albu Nimr.        

"The number of people killed by Islamic State from Albu Nimr tribe is 322. The bodies of 50 women and children have also been discovered dumped in a well," the country's Human Rights Ministry said on Sunday.        

One of the leaders of the tribe, Sheikh Naeem al-Ga'oud, told Reuters that he had repeatedly asked the central government and army to provide his men with arms but no action was taken.      

State television said on Sunday that Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had ordered airstrikes on Islamic State targets around the town of Hit in response to the killings.       

Officials at a government security operations command centre in Anbar and civilians reached by Reuters said they had not heard of or witnessed airstrikes.

Also on Sunday, a bomb killed 14 Shi'ite pilgrims in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, after two other deadly explosions killed 20 people in the capital just ahead of Ashura, a religious festival targeted by suicide bombers in the past.        

The bomb in Sadr City exploded near a tent used by pilgrims preparing for Ashura, when millions of Shi'ites will commemorate the slaying of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hussein at the Battle of Kerbala in 680 AD.


AP/REUTERS
 
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