Islamic State is reported to have executed six boys with a welding rod and flogged three young men for playing football.
According to the Mirror, the six boys from the Nineveh area in Iraq were said to have been handcuffed before a welding machine and rod was used to kill them in a public execution by the terror group in central Mosul.
“ISIS said that the youths belonged to a resistance faction,” a source said in a report by American Herald Tribune .
“The execution took place in Mosul in front of a large gathering. This came in order to create a state of fear and panic among the people.”
Also in Mosul, ISIS members had flogged three young men on charges of playing football, Iraqi News reported.
“ISIS men arrested three young men for playing football, one player wearing a Messi shirt in Martyrs’ Park in downtown Mosul,” a source told the website.
“ISIS militants have lashed every young man with 30 lashes in a public square in front of a crowd of people in central Mosul, as they are playing a game, which is prohibited in Islam.
“ISIS tore the T-shirt which carried Messi ‘s name.”
The reports emerged as Shirqat, which lies on the Tigris River 60 miles south of Mosul, has been surrounded by Iraqi troops and Iranian-backed Shi’ite Muslim militias allied to the government.