ICC Note: An elderly woman from Kirkuk, Iraq was recently apprehended by ISIS with her four children and then burned alive. The gruesome execution took place in front of a civilian crowd in the city of Kirkuk. The woman was trying to escape the militant occupation when she was intercepted on the Himreen Highway in the northwest of Iraq. This all happened a little over a week ago.

01/29/2017 Iraq (Christian Daily): The Islamic State burned alive a mother and her four children in Kirkuk, Iraq for trying to leave the caliphate, a security source told Al-Manar.

Media reports cited by Al Masdar News say ISIS terrorists apprehended the woman and her three daughters and one son on the Himreen Highway in northwest Iraq while they were trying to flee the caliphate more than a week ago. In a brutal execution, the militants burned them alive while displaced civilians watched.

Earlier this month, an elderly woman who had escaped from ISIS told Rudaw that a person can shell out $400 to flee from the militant group in Hawija. The woman, who sought refuge at a camp in Kirkuk, said she and some others paid that amount so that they would not have to live under ISIS rule anymore.

“Anyone can escape by paying $400, or $300,” the woman said. “We have paid so we won’t face ISIS anymore.”

There are others who were able to escape Hawija without paying. The woman said these people leave the city via other routes at night.

In the second half of 2016, around 8,000 people from Hawija fled and ended up in Kirkuk just to escape from ISIS. Before they can enter refugee camps, the people are required to undergo a security screening process.

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