Islamic State group lines up and kills 50 tribesmen, women and children

Islamic State group extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 tribesmen, women and children in Iraq’s Anbar province Sunday, officials said, the latest mass killing committed by the group. The militant group killed at least 40 men, six women and four children from an Anbar Sunni tribe, lining them up and publicly killing them one by one, Sheikh Naim al-Gaoud, a senior figure in the targeted Al Bu Nimr tribe, told The Associated Press. Another 17 people were kidnapped by the militant group, he said. An official with the Anbar governor’s office corroborated the account.

Forty of the dead were men. Six women and four children were killed while trying to protect their husbands and fathers.

Tribal chief Sheikh Naeem al-Ga’oud

The militant group killed another 50 members of the Al Bu Nimr tribe late Friday, and at least 48 people on Thursday, according to various officials who spoke to the AP. The militant Islamist group has overrun a large part of Anbar province in its push to expand its territory across Iraq and Syria. A number of Iraq’s Sunni tribes have been fundamental in stalling the Islamic State group’s advance, taking up arms and fighting alongside Iraqi security forces. The United Nations mission in Baghdad said Saturday that at least 1,273 Iraqis were killed in violence in October, a slight increase compared to last month amid the Islamic State group’s assault.

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