Gunmen stormed into a notorious and poor district of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul overnight, killing six women and a man, police and medical sources said Monday.
“Six women and one man were killed last night by gunmen who stormed into a home in Al-Tanak neighborhood of Mosul,” a police major told AFP of a poor district known as a location for brothels, which are illegal in Iraq.
A source at Al-Mosul hospital confirmed that the bodies of six women and a man had been received. He said the women were aged between 20 and 40.
Mosul’s Nineveh province is home to armed Islamic groups, some related to Al-Qaeda.
Violence in Iraq has fallen since its peak in 2006-2007, but bombings, gun attacks and kidnappings are still routine.