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Militants allegedly stormed into the small village of Kojo in northern Iraq
They 'spent five days trying to persuade villages to take up their religion'
When they refused, male members of the sect were reportedly shot dead
Women and girls were allegedly kidnapped during the one-hour 'massacre'
Comes as U.S. airstrikes have have destroyed two armed vehicles in Iraq
ISIS's push to border has sent tens of thousands of Yazidis fleeing for lives
On Wednesday, British jihadist claimed women being held as slaves in Syria
Nasser Muthana, 20, previously featured in chilling ISIS recruitment video
Appeared with friend Reyaad Khan attempting to recruit Western Muslims

By Simon Tomlinson and John Hall and Sophie Jane Evans For Mailonline

Published: 15:58 GMT, 15 August 2014 | Updated: 23:13 GMT, 15 August 2014

Islamic State militants have 'massacred' at least 80 Yazidis after they refused to convert to Islam, it has been claimed.

The insurgents allegedly stormed into the small village of Kojo in northern Iraq, where they spent five days trying to persuade villagers to take up their religion.
When they refused, the male members of the ancient sect were reportedly rounded up and shot dead, while more than 100 women and girls were kidnapped.

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Terrified: Islamic State militants have 'massacred' at least 80 Yazidis after they refused to convert to Islam, it has been claimed. Above, displaced Yazidis shelter are seen at a park near the Turkey-Iraq border yesterday

'They arrived in vehicles and they started their killing this afternoon,' senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters yesterday. 'We believe it's because of their creed: convert or be killed.'

The women and girls abducted from the village, situated around 12 miles south of Sinjar, were being taken to the ISIS-controlled cities of Mosul and Tal Afar, the official said.

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It comes as the Islamic State's continued push to the border with the Kurdish region has sparked a series of U.S. airstrikes and sent tens of thousands of Yazidis and Christians fleeing for their lives.

Yesterday, Yazidi parliamentarian Mahama Khalil said the alleged massacre had taken place during a one-hour period.

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Waiting: Members of Yazidi community rest as they try to cross to Turkey, in Zakho, 300 miles north of Baghdad

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Injured: The insurgents allegedly stormed into the small village of Kojo in northern Iraq yesterday, before spending five days trying to persuade villagers to take up their religion. Above, an injured Yazidi boy

Meanwhile, the resident of a nearby village claimed to have been told details of the bloodshed by an Islamic State fighter.

'He told me that the Islamic State had spent five days trying to persuade villagers to convert to Islam and that a long lecture was delivered about the subject today,' said the villager.
'He then said the men were gathered and shot dead. The women and girls were probably taken to Tal Afar because that is where the foreign fighters are.'

However, the account could not be independently confirmed.

Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, according to Iraq's human rights minister.

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Panic: It comes as the Islamic State's continued push to the border with the Kurdish region has sparked a series of U.S. airstrikes and sent tens of thousands of Yazidis and Christians fleeing for their lives

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Hidden away: Yazidis who fled the violence from ISIS forces in Sinjar shelter on Mount Sinjar earlier this week

Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried some of their victims alive, including women and children. Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added.

Meanwhile, American military officials last night claimed airstrikes from drones destroyed two armed vehicles south of the Iraqi town of Sinjar.

In a statement, U.S. Central Command said Kurdish forces had reported that Islamic State militants were attacking civilians in the village of Kawju.

Officials said remotely piloted aircraft identified and then followed an armed vehicle to a roadside area near Sanjar, before striking and destroying two vehicles in the area.

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Sick: British jihadist Nasser Muthana posted this claim on his Twitter account saying that he and other Islamic State fighters had captured hundreds of Yazidi and were holding them hostage in Syria

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Jihadist: Nasser Muthana is a 20-year-old former Cardiff schoolboy who featured prominently in the Islamic State's first professionally produced English language propaganda video

It comes just days after a British jihadist made sick claims on Twitter that Islamic State militants are holding hundreds of Iraqi women as slaves in Syria.

Former Cardiff schoolboy Nasser Muthana appeared to refer to reports that 300 women were snatched from the Yazidi community near Mount Sinjar, where ISIS cornered thousands of refugees in a ten-day siege.

The tweet also alluded to claims that the women were intended to be given to young jihadists as wives.

It read: 'I can confirm that we have hundreds of yazidi slave women now in Syria, how about that for news!'

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Before: Former Cardiff schoolboy Nasser Muthana uploaded images with the stark warning: 'Army base buildings before and after, I'm getting good with these bombs'

When his claims were questioned by a known sympathiser, he sounded more sincere.

Da Masked Avenger asked him: 'In all seriousness. What's the truth of this matter?'
Muthana replied: 'I'm not lying.'

The message was posted on Wednesday, but has since been deleted and his claims cannot be independently verified.

Fears are now growing for the captured women amid claims they could be used to bear children to break up the Kurdish-speaking group's bloodline.

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After: The young jihadist, who describes himself on Twitter as a 'soldier of the Islamic State', said last month the UK government should be 'afraid' of his bomb-making skills

The minority group is originally Aryan and has retained a fairer complexion, blonde hair and blue eyes by only marrying within the community.

But in a furious bid to convert all non-Muslims, ISIS jihadists have vowed to impregnate the hostages.

Addressing the kidnapping, Adnan Kochar, chairman of the Kurdish Cultural Centre in London, told MailOnline: 'The Kurds and Yazidis are originally Aryans.

'But because the Yazidis are such a closed community they have retained a fairer complexion, blonder hair and bluer eyes. They don't marry non-Yazidis.

'ISIS have taken around 300 women from Sinjar to give to jihadists to marry and make pregnant to have a Muslim child. If they can't kill all Yazidis, they will try to smash the blond bloodline.'

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Threat: Nasser Muthana posted a message on Twitter last month warning that the UK government should be afraid of him returning to the country with his new bomb making skills

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Find: Muthana claims to have found this prayer mat inside the army base. He says it offers devotion to the Prophet Mohammed's daughter and is therefore in breach of Islamic law as evidence of practicing idolatry

Muthana - who featured in a chilling ISIS recruitment video - has been a prolific user of social media in recent months, posting horrific pictures of mutilated Iraqi soldiers and other taunting claims about the Islamic State's uprising in Iraq.

He has previously warned that ISIS fighters would slaughter any Yazidi men they captured in northern Iraq and would enslave their women and children.

'Kuffar [non-believers] are afraid we will slaughter Yazidis, our deen [religious path] is clear we will kill their men, take their women and children as slaves insha Allah,' he posted on Twitter.

He also posted a message on Twitter warning that the UK government should be afraid of him returning to the country with his new bomb making skills.