Real Madrid offer condolences after at least 12 fans killed in ISIS attack

Real Madrid have expressed their sadness after at least 12 of their supporters were killed in an ISIS attack.

Sky News reports that at least 12 were killed and 25 injured when Islamic State fighters launched an attack on a café in Balad, a town north of Baghdad. It is though that supporters of the club regularly gather there and chat about football. The Real Madrid team will wear black armbands at their away game with Deportivo tomorrow as a mark of respect for those who were killed. A statement released by the football club reads:

"Real Madrid C. F. deeply regrets the terrible attack in Iraq which today saw 16 members of a Real Madrid supporters club lose their lives and which has also left over 20 injured. The club expresses its great sadness and offers its regards and condolences to the families and friends of the victims. Real Madrid extends all of its solidarity to the people of Iraq, who suffer the excessive injustices of extreme violence. The Real Madrid players will tomorrow wear symbolic black armbands as a sign of their mourning and respect. Football and sport shall always be spaces in which to come together and in which harmony and peace reign and with which no form of barbaric terrorism will be able to compete. Today Madridismo across the whole world cries for its supporters, who shall never be forgotten".