Kurdish Demonstrator-Aug. 9, 2014
A Kurdish demonstrator of the Yazidi minority holds a placard reading “We Are All Yazidis” during a protest of ISIS practices in Iraq by about 2,000 Kurds of the Yazidi sect in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday. Reuters/Ralph Orlowski

(Reuters) -- Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq’s Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north of the country, Iraq’s human-rights minister told Reuters Sunday.

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

(Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Catherine Evans.)

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