Three gunmen opened fire with machine guns around midnight at the cafe in the predominately Shi’ite Muslim town of Balad.
Horrific pictures from the scene show the floor covered in broken glass and soaked in blood in the cafe where up to 50 Real fans had gathered.
Posters of the club’s players and coach Zinedine Zidane can be seen hanging on the walls.
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”.
When asked about the motive for the attack, the president replied: “They don’t like football, they think it’s anti-Muslim. They just carry out attacks like this. This is a terrible tragedy”.
At least 14 people are dead and a further 20 injured.
The assailants fled and hours later one of them set off hisexplosive vest at a nearby vegetable market after police andShi’ite militia members cornered him in a disused building and exchanged gunfire, security sources said.
Four were killed and two were critically wounded, medical sources also said.
ISIS said in a statement that three suicide attackers had detonated their explosives, though security sources said they had only identified one of the gunmen.
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