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Last Updated: Sunday, 22 April 2007, 16:56 GMT 17:56 UK

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Iraq gunmen target minority group

Unidentified gunmen have killed 23 people in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said.
All the victims were said to be members of the Yazidi religious minority which follows a pre-Islamic religion and worships an angel figure.

Police said the victims had been dragged from a bus and shot dead. Followers of other faiths were reportedly left unharmed by the gunmen

Three Yazidi members were seriously wounded but survived the attack, police and hospital officials said.

No group has so far claimed the responsibility for the shootings, but reports say the Yazidi community has recently faced threats from Sunni Muslim extremists in the Mosul area.

The Yazidis are mostly ethnic Kurds.

They worship an angel figure that some Muslims and Christians consider the devil.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6581827.stm?ls

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