(VOVworld)-Islamic State (IS) militants executed an Iraqi news cameraman and 12 other people on Friday. The militants shot dead Raad al-Azzawi, a 37-year-old cameraman for local news channel Sama Salaheddin, his brother and two other civilians in the village of Samra, east of the city of Tikrit. According to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the Islamic State group executed Azzawi on the grounds because he had refused to work for them.

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On the same day, IS executed nine other people north of Tikrit, all of them on suspicion of ties to anti-militant Sunni grassroots organizations. In the town of Az-Zab, six people were executed in public. In Baiji, three men were beheaded on Friday. The official said the three men had been abducted a few days earlier and were former members of the Sahwa organization funded by the US military to combat Al-Qaeda in 2007-2008.