Revenge for a Stoning Victim ; Iraq's Worst Atrocity in Four Years Leaves 250 Dead in Suicide Blasts Over the Killing of a Kurd Who Fell for a Muslim

Daily MailAugust 16, 2007

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SUICIDE bombings that claimed at least 250 victims in Iraq were in revenge for the stoning to death of a teenage girl, it emerged last night.

Duaa Khalil Aswad, 17, was 'executed' by members of the Kurdish Yazidi sect for falling in love with a Sunni Muslim.

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Revenge for a Stoning Victim ; Iraq's Worst Atrocity in Four Years Leaves 250 Dead in Suicide Blasts Over the Killing of a Kurd Who Fell for a Muslim

Horrifying videos of her slow and agonising death have been posted on the Internet.

On Tuesday, four suicide bombers in trucks struck at Yazidi villages in the Kurdish north of Iraq, bringing hundreds of single- storey clay houses crashing down.

By last night, the confirmed death toll had passed 250, making it th...

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