UN ‘extremely alarmed’ at ‘hundreds of deaths in Iraq’

UN ‘extremely alarmed’ at ‘hundreds of deaths in Iraq’

United Nations Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay said the UN was “extremely alarmed” by the impact of the Islamist takeover of several cities in Iraq on the civilian population.
Pillay said the UN was alarmed by reports that the number of people killed in summary executions and extrajudicial killings “may run into the hundreds”.