Alwaght- ISIS terrorists have reportedly executed 25 civilians in Hawijah city, located in Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk.
Arabic-language al-Sumaria television cited an unnamed source as saying on Monday that ISIS entrapped 25 Iraqis inside a booby-trapped house and then detonated the building.
The informed source added that the ISIS terrorists had accused the victims of espionage and collaboration with Iraqi security forces.
The heinous crime came only a few days after the terrorist group executed six people in the Mosul by lowering them in a vat of melting bitumen.
“Six persons were placed inside tanks containing boiling tar and the execution was carried out in one of ISIS headquarters at al-Shora. The execution took place in public to incite fear among the citizens,” Iraqi news reported on Sunday.
In a similar brutal action, on August 6, ISIS executed 61 people by firing squad on the outskirts of Hawijah, Hassan Mahmoud al-Soufi, a commander of pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces said.
Soufi said those killed were among the 3,000 civilians whom ISIS ad ambushed and captured days before as the former tried to flee from the ISIS-held city.
There are reports that ISIS terrorists plan to use the remaining hostages as human shields to stop the advance of government forces gearing up for the liberation of Hawijah.
The northern and western parts of Iraq have been plagued by gruesome violence ever since ISIS terrorists mounted an offensive in June 2014. They have been committing vicious crimes against all ethnic and religious communities in Iraq, including Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds and Christians.
The Iraqi army and fighters from the Popular Mobilization units have been engaged in joint operations to retake ISIS-held regions.
