Writing left on the door of one of the buildings read: ‘this is the fate of any prostitution’

Gunmen killed 25 women when they stormed two buildings in a residential Baghdad compound reputedly used for prostitution.

“Twenty-five women were killed and eight people wounded, among them four men, when gunmen stormed two buildings in a residential compound in Zayouna in east Baghdad,” an interior ministry official told AFP.

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