At around 2PM (GMT+3), a bus carrying workers from the Mosul Textile Factory en route to
Bashiqa,
Al-Hamdaniya District was stopped by cars owned by unidentified attackers. With the bus now stationary, the attackers got on, and checked the passengers' identity cards. According to
Iraqi police, after checking their identification, the gunmen told the
Muslim and
Christian passengers to get off the bus. They then drove the bus to eastern Mosul with 23 remaining passengers, all
Yazidis, where the hostages were made to lie face down in front of a wall and shot, execution-style. == Reactions ==