Iraqi federal policemen arrive to join the fighting against Islamic State. (AP)
Islamic State militants have lined up 30 Sunni men
in a town west of Baghdad and shot them dead, according to officials.
The
killings took place on a main street in the town of Hit.
Anbar
provincial council chairman Sabah Karhout said the Sunnis were tribal fighters
allied with the government and members of the security forces, and were
captured when IS overran the town, 85 miles west of the Iraqi capital.
Hit fell
to IS in early October after fierce clashes with government forces backed by
Sunni fighters from the Albu Nimir tribe.
IS has
seized large areas of land in western and northern Iraq in the country's worst
crisis since the 2011 US troop withdrawal.
Residents
said the 30 men were paraded through the city as militants shouted through
loudspeakers that they were apostates who fought against them.
In Iraq
and areas in eastern Syria, the IS militants have declared a self-styled
caliphate and imposed their own harsh interpretation of shariah law. They also
have targeted the country's religious minorities, including Christians and
others, killing hundreds and forcing hundreds of thousands to leave their
homes.
Source: Bellfast Telegraph
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