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.
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نسرین ستوده: زندانی روز | Dec 04 | |
Saeed Malekpour: Prisoner of the day | Lawyer says death sentence suspended | Dec 03 |
Majid Tavakoli: Prisoner of the day | Iterview with mother | Dec 02 |
احسان نراقی: جامعه شناس و نویسنده ۱۳۰۵-۱۳۹۱ | Dec 02 | |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Prisoner of the day | 46 days on hunger strike | Dec 01 |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Graffiti | In Barcelona | Nov 30 |
گوهر عشقی: مادر ستار بهشتی | Nov 30 | |
Abdollah Momeni: Prisoner of the day | Activist denied leave and family visits for 1.5 years | Nov 30 |
محمد کلالی: یکی از حمله کنندگان به سفارت ایران در برلین | Nov 29 | |
Habibollah Golparipour: Prisoner of the day | Kurdish Activist on Death Row | Nov 28 |
Freedom fighters really means Fighters for Islamic Enslavement
by Escape on Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:33 AM PDTAnother LIE from the LIARS and supporters of FILTH