New details about Shilan’s massacre

Shafaq News / The Counter-Terrorism services in Kurdistan Region published, on Wednesday, the confessions of the criminal of the Kurdish family massacre in the capital, Baghdad.

A statement by the services stated, "After information about the killer who brutally murdered a Kurdish family consisting of two parents and their only daughter in an apartment in the Mansour district of Baghdad, he was arrested in Asayish District, Erbil where he hid.

"After interrogating him, he confessed to committing the crime," It added.

According to the confessions, viewed by Shafaq News agency, the perpetrator named Mahdi Hussein Nasser Matar, born in 1984, from Baghdad, Habibiya district, and works in protecting facilities in the Federal Ministry of Interior, specifically in the Russian embassy building.