UN: Daesh Slaughters 60 People in Mosul
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Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] terrorists reportedly shot dead more than 60 people this week and hung some of their bodies from poles after alleging they had collaborated with Iraqi troops, the United Nations said Friday.
The UN human rights office raised alarm over hundreds of grotesque atrocities allegedly committed by Daesh as Iraqi forces pushed their nearly month-long offensive to retake Mosul, the last extremist bastion in Iraq.
"On Tuesday, Daesh reportedly shot and killed 40 civilians in Mosul city after accusing them of 'treason and collaboration' with the Iraqi Security Forces [ISF]," rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said in a statement.
"The victims were dressed in orange clothes marked in red with the words: 'traitors and agents of the ISF'. Their bodies were then hung on electrical poles in several areas in Mosul city," she added.
Abu Saif, a resident of eastern Mosul, told AFP by telephone that he had seen bodies strung up in the city along with signs that read "agent" and "traitor".
He did not have an exact count of the total number of bodies, but said he saw between 30 and 40.
"The Daesh organization gathered people in some of the streets of Mosul and publicly executed a number of people of various ages, some of them by gunfire and others by beheading," he said.
According to the UN, a 27-year-old man was reportedly killed in public in central Mosul Tuesday for using a mobile phone, which the terrorist group has banned in areas it controls.
And earlier Wednesday, Daesh slaughtered another 20 people at the Ghabat Military Base in northern Mosul after accusing them of "leaking information," the UN statement said.
"Their bodies were also hung at various intersections in Mosul, with notes stating: 'decision of execution' and 'used cellphones to leak information to the ISF'", the statement added.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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