Three Sunni members shot dead in front of mosque

Gunmen seized three members of Iraq’s largest Sunni Muslim party today and shot them dead hours later in front of a mosque in Mosul, an official of the party and witnesses said.

The three were kidnapped early today in the city’s southern neighbourhood of New Mosul, said Nouredine al-Hayali of the Iraqi Islamic Party. They were later shot dead in Mosul’s northern neighbourhood of Nour.