Horrific pictures have emerged showing
the bodies of some of the 25 women murdered in a raid on a Baghdad
brothel. Gunmen wearing camouflage and carrying weapons fitted with
silencers reportedly burst into two
apartments in they city's Zayouna district on Saturday evening before
massacring everyone
inside.
Police
arrived at the building to find blood streaming down the stairs. Inside
they discovered the bodies of dozens of women scattered around two
apartments. Continue...
Most of the victims appear to have been killed by gunshost wounds to the head. In
one image the bodies of five women are seen slumped together on the
floor of bathroom.
In another the bodies of eight women are seen lying
in a pool of blood in what appears to be a living room. MailOnline has decided not to publish these images.
A message scrawled on a wall inside one of the apartments read: 'This is the fate of any prostitution.'
While
no group has yet claimed responsibility for the murders, locals believe
the killings were carried out by Shiite militants opposed to
prostitution.
A
police officer speaking on condition of anonymity said: 'When we walked
up the stairs, we saw a couple of women's bodies and blood streaming
down the stairs. We
entered a flat and found bodies everywhere, some lying on the sofa,
some on the ground, and one woman who apparently had tried to hide in a
cupboard in the kitchen shot to death there.'
The attacks happened late on Saturday night at an apartment block in , a mixed Sunni and Shiite district of Baghdad.
Police
believe men using silenced weapons carried out the executions, before
scrawling 'this is the fate of any prostitution' on one of the doors.
Officers
have now cordoned off the street, with residents reporting that the
sole access point to the building has been blocked off.
Shiite
militias have become more active on the streets of Baghdad since Sunni
militants led by jihadist fighters took over large swathes of eastern
and northern Iraq a month ago.
Culled from UK Daily Mail
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