"Elements of the organization (Daesh) executed physicians Tareq Jassim and Adil Ayham working in the Department of Surgery of the Republican General Hospital in Mosul,” Doctor Firas al-Hamdani, the head of the hospital’s emergency section, said .
According to Hamdani, the doctors were executed for their refusal to join hospitals under the control of the terrorist group or to treat the wounded members of Daesh.
“The bodies of the doctors arrived at the hospital morgue this evening after being executed by [the Daesh] firing squad," he added.
Daesh arrested the doctors in September. They threatened to punish the doctors and nurses who refuse to treat injured militants.
Daesh has also forced the doctors at the Mosul Health Department to work around the clock to provide medical services for the members of the Takfiri group, officials at the medical center say.
Daesh took control of the country’s second largest city in June before sweeping through parts of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.
