Business Recorder - World - Middle East https://www.brecorder.com/ Business Recorder en-Us Copyright 2026 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:14:14 +0500 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:14:14 +0500 60 Gunmen in Iraq kill six women and a man https://www.brecorder.com/news/9035/gunmen-in-iraq-kill-six-women-and-a-man <p class="MsoNormal"><img style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" src="https://i.brecorder.com/images/stories/pics2011/mar/Iraq_2008_flag_404.jpg" width="400" height="271" />MOSUL: Gunmen stormed into a notorious and poor district of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul overnight, killing six women and a man, police and medical sources said on Monday.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">"Six women and one man were killed last night by gunmen who stormed into a home in Al-Tanak neighbourhood of Mosul," a police major told AFP of a poor district known as a location for brothels, which are illegal in Iraq.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A source at Al Mosul hospital confirmed that the bodies of six women and a man had been received. He said the women were aged between 20 and 40.</p> <p><center><b><i>Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011</i></b><i> </i></center></p> MOSUL: Gunmen stormed into a notorious and poor district of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul overnight, killing six women and a man, police and medical sources said on Monday.

"Six women and one man were killed last night by gunmen who stormed into a home in Al-Tanak neighbourhood of Mosul," a police major told AFP of a poor district known as a location for brothels, which are illegal in Iraq.

A source at Al Mosul hospital confirmed that the bodies of six women and a man had been received. He said the women were aged between 20 and 40.

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