Over 80 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority have been massacred by the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in a village in Iraq’s North, Kurdish officials said.
“They arrived in vehicles and they started their killing this afternoon,” senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters.
In addition to the murders, local women were kidnapped from the village, another Kurdish official source told the agency. A local Ezadi lawmaker confirmed the information.
The attack happened in the Yaz minority village of Kojo some 20 km South of Sinjar that came under attack by the ISIL radicals.
Around 80 men, the village’s whole male population, were slaughtered while all the women were kidnapped.
The killings in the village lasted for about an hour, according to eyewitness reports, based on the testimony of Ezadi lawmaker Mahama Khalil who spoke to survivors.
The ISIL militants have targeted Christians, Shiite Muslims, Kurds, Yazidis and other groups in their brutal sweep across Iraq.
Source: FARS
