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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/islamic-state-publicly-executes-at-least-46-sunni-opponents-in-fallen-iraq-city/2014/10/29/d739f4b0-5f72-11e4-827b-2d813561bdfd_story.html

Islamic State Executes 46 Sunni Opponents in Captured Iraqi City

(Washington Post) Loveday Morris and Mustafa Salim - Islamic State gunmen on Wednesday publicly killed 46 members of the Albu Nimr tribe in a city square in the city of Hit, which the Islamic State seized this month. A local resident said, "They gathered them in al-Bakir Square at 11 a.m. today, hands bound, and shot them all." Pictures distributed on pro-Islamic State social media showed bodies lined up on the pavement. The resident added that dozens of tribesmen had already been killed in Islamic State prisons before Wednesday's slayings.

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