Children among 50 executed by Islamic State in Iraq

BAGHDAD: Islamic State group extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 Iraqi tribesmen, women and children Sunday, officials said, the latest mass slaying by militants who have killing some 150 members of the tribe in recent days.

The killings, all committed in public, target the Sunni Al Bu Nimr tribe that the Islamic State group now apparently views as a threat, though previously some Sunnis backed the expansion of the group and other militants into the volatile province in December.

Sunday’s attack on the Sunni tribe took place in the village of Ras Al-Maa, north of Ramadi, the provincial capital. There, the militant group killed at least 40 men, six women and four children, lining them up and publicly killing them one by one, Sheikh Naim Al-Gaoud, a senior tribesman, told The Associated Press. The militants also kidnapped another 17 people, he said.

An official with the Anbar governor’s office corroborated the tribesman’s account. He spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to brief journalists.

The attack against Al Bu Nimr tribe comes after militants killed another 50 members of its members late Friday and 48 on Thursday, according to various officials who have spoken to the AP.

Meanwhile, a car bomb attack near tents serving Shiites killed 14 people and wounded 32 in Baghdad, police and medical officials said. They said the bombing in Baghdad’s Bayaa district struck as people delivered food to Shiites heading to Karbala.