Isis behead 30 people in Iraq

Isis militants have shot and then beheaded 30 men in weste Iraq, an official has said.

The murders, which were committed on a main street in the town of Hit, were Sunni tribal fighters allied with the govement and domestic security forces who had been captured by the Islamist group, a resident said.

According to locals, the prisoners were first paraded through the town by Isis members – who used loudspeakers to condemn the captured men as apostates – before being lined up and shot with assault rifles.

Anbar provincial council chairman Sabah Karhout said those killed had been taken by the terror group when they overran the town – located 140km west of Baghdad – earlier this month.

Branding the murders ‘a crime against humanity", he called for more inteational support for the Sunni tribes fighting back against Isis in the region.

The news comes after a roadside bomb killed three soldiers and wounded seven south of Baghdad on Wednesday, while a bomb blast in Baghdad"s easte district killed two and wounded eight, police said.

Later that evening, a suicide bomber drove a car laden with explosives into a police checkpoint in Youssifiyah, killing five police officers and wounding 18 people, according to officials.