At least 14 people are dead after a group of Isis militants armed with machine guns attacked the headquarters of a Real Madrid supporters club.
Men holding AK-47s stormed the supporters building in Samarra, 125km north of Baghdad, Iraq and opened fire on a group of around 50 people who had gathered
to watch a game.
At least 14 people were killed and a further 20 were injured.
The members would meet at the building for coffee and to watch Real Madrid games together.
When there wasn’t a live match, they would put an old game on instead – such was their love of the football team.
The president of the club, Ziad Subhan, said: ‘A group of Islamist terrorists, from ISIS, came into the café armed with AK-47s, shooting at random at everyone who was inside.’
AS reports that Mr Subhan said the attackers ‘don’t like football… they think it’s anti-Muslim’.
The attack on the club comes just two days after the worst violence seen in the Iraqi capital so far in 2016.
On Wednesday, around 90 people were killed in multiple blasts across Baghdad.
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