Militants from the Islamic State lined up 30 Sunni men in a town west of Baghdad and shot them dead this morning, an Iraqi official and residents said. The slayings took place on a main street in al-Bakir district in the town of Hit, which has been the scene of intense fighting by jihadis and local resistance groups in recent weeks. It is understood the murdered men were mainly local tribal leaders who had allied with the Iraqi government and were helping to organise anti-ISIS operations in the embattled town.
The militants first paraded the men through town, shouting through loudspeakers that the captured men were apostates who fought against them, residents said. The extremists then lined up the men and shot them dead with assault rifles, residents said.
A photograph showed a line of the men's bodies by a small pool of blood as onlookers walked by. Anbar provincial council chairman,
Sabah Karhout, said the Sunnis killed were tribal fighters allied with the government and members of the security forces.
The men were captured when ISIS terrorists overran the town, which sits on the Euphrates river and is located about 85 miles west of the Iraqi capital.
Karhout called the slayings 'a crime against humanity' and demanded more international support for the Sunni tribes fighting the militants in Anbar province.
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