Terrorist group attack Real Madrid football fan club in Iraq: 16 dead
The Sunni terror group ISIS has attacked a Real Madrid football fan club in Samarra, 50 miles north of Iraq capital Baghdad, killing 16 people and leaving more than 30 people injured, Spanish newspaper AS has reported.
The La Liga club have released an official statement after the attack:
“Real Madrid C. F. deeply regrets the terrible attack in Iraq which today saw 16 members of a Real Madrid supporters club lose their lives and which has also left over 20 injured.
The club expresses its great sadness and offers its regards and condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
Real Madrid extends all of its solidarity to the people of Iraq, who suffer the excessive injustices of extreme violence.
The Real Madrid players will tomorrow wear symbolic black armbands as a sign of their mourning and respect. Football and sport shall always be spaces in which to come together and in which harmony and peace reign and with which no form of barbaric terrorism will be able to compete.
Today Madridismo across the whole world cries for its supporters, who shall never be forgotten.”
Samarra’s Real Madrid fan club president Ziad Zubhanreleased an interview with AS: “A group of terrorists belonging to ISIS have attacked our headquarters with several AK-47 rifles shooting to anyone was inside. We are devastated after what happened today.”
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Pic credit: AS
