IS militants 'killed 600 Iraqi prisoners'

Islamic State militants carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi prison inmates when they seized the country’s second-largest city of Mosul in June, according to an international rights group.

IS militants 'killed 600 Iraqi prisoners'

Islamic State militants carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi prison inmates when they seized the country’s second-largest city of Mosul in June, according to an international rights group.

Human Rights Watch said 600 male Shiite inmates from Badoosh prison outside Mosul were forced to kneel along the edge of a ravine and shot with automatic weapons.

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