At least 13 people were killed and 25 others were injured when three gunmen attacked a cafe in Iraq’s Balad town, a security source said on Friday.
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Real Madrid have released a statement condemning the attack, and their players will wear black armbands during the title decider away to Deportivo de La Coruna tomorrow afternoon.
The video also shows the switched off TVs hung among portraits of Real Madrid heroes like Ronaldo on the wall.
The Islamic State (IS) extremist group posted a statement online claiming responsibility for the attack.
The attackers used machineguns to spray the cafe with bullets from cars parked outside for about 10 minutes before leaving the scene, the Reuters news agency reported.
President of the Madrid supporters club, Ziad Subhan, said: “A group of Islamic terrorists, from ISIS, came into the café, armed with AK-47s, shooting at random at everyone who was inside”.
A twin suicide bombing hit a police station Thursday in Baghdad’s westernmost suburb, killing at least five policemen a day after a wave of attacks killed almost 100 people in the Iraqi capital. The deadliest attack killed 63 people in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in northeast Baghdad on Wednesday.
A police colonel said the attack was aimed at distracting security forces from closing in on the nearby city of Falluja, which Iraqi forces have ringed for more than six months.
Saturday’s attack in Amiriyat Falluja, just west of Baghdad, began around 4 a.m.(0100 GMT) when at least nine IS militants, including four suicide attackers, infiltrated the town, police sources said.
The attackers then fled and several hours later three of them reportedly set off their explosive vests at a market after being cornered by police and Shia militia.
Spanish club Real Madrid have announced that their team will wear black arm bands in solidarity with the casualties in the recent terrorist attack in Baghdad on Friday.
Security officials said that seven people died and 12 more were injured during the episode.
IS frequently carried out attacks against civilians and military across the country in retaliation.
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Experts say that as the group’s territorial losses have mounted it has changed tactics, reverting to an earlier strategy of using large bombs to target security forces and Iraq’s Shiite majority, aiming to stoke sectarian strife and undermine faith in the Shiite-led government.
