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An Iraqi man has reportedly gunned down seven Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in a revenge attack for the death of his son.

A string of reports claim Basil Ramadan, said to be in his 60s, opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle on a group of ISIS militants at a checkpoint in the city of Tikrit.

He killed seven before he was shot dead on Sunday morning.

Local media say ISIS terrorists executed Ahmed Ramadan, an 18-year-old college student, earlier this year.

He was killed alongside seven other young men who were accused of collaborating with the Iraqi security forces, reports say.

It was also reported in January that the group were undercover Iraqi police officers.

Photographs and video were released last month by ISIS terrorists showing the men blindfolded and handcuffed being frogmarched along the edge of a river.

Forced to kneel down, each prisoner was executed with a single bullet to the head.



In early 2007, another son of Ramadan was killed by the al-Qaida terrorist group in Tikrit.

The news comes just days after Japanese journalist Rinko Goto was killed by Islamic State terrorists.

The militants released a gruesome video claiming to show the beheading of Mr Goto, who was kidnapped in October last year.