DHAKA: The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadist group has in recent days executed more than 200 members of an Iraqi tribe that fought against it.

Officials and a tribal leader said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.

Accounts varied as to the exact period in which the Sunni Albu Nimr tribesmen were killed in various areas of Iraq’s Anbar province, but the executions were all said to have been carried out within the last 10 days.

Police Colonel Shaaban al-Obaidi told the media that there were more than 200 people killed, while Faleh al-Essawi, the deputy head of the Anbar provincial council, put the toll at 258.

The victims, ‘including women and children, all of them from the Albu Nimr tribe’, were killed ‘during the past three days’, Essawi said.

BDST: 2016 HRS, NOV 02, 2014