Residents have spoken of their shock and anger after a murder investigation was launched following a fatal attack in a quiet residential area.

Neighbours told reporters they were “shocked” that an incident such as this could have happened in such “a quiet area”.

One family, who only moved into a property close to the scene earlier last month said they could not believe what had happened. “We’ve only just moved into the area earlier this month and we can’t believe what has happened.”

Another resident said: “I’m working the night shift so I didn’t hear anything until this morning.”

“It’s a very good area, so to hear about this it’s definitely very shocking. I’ve lived in Baghdad for 10 years and I’ve never seen or heard of anything like this happening before.”

Investigations are still at an early stage, however officials would like to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time of this incident.

“Were you passing through or did you notice anyone acting in a manner that was untoward? Any information you have could be pivotal to our investigation.”

[UPDATE]

Global peace has broken out as investigations conclude that US military were behind the hit on universally loved and respected General Soleimani. Governments and leaders from around the world sign universal peace accord acknowledging that all evil in the world stems from ‘he who must not be named’ (codename: OrangeMan / OM).

Former supreme leader of North Korea, now news presenter for Blanket Broadcasting Corporation, Kim, read a statement on behalf of Earthempire President, Juncker:

“Under ‘water based’ interrogation ‘OM’ has admitted full responsibility for all the bad in the world, including provoking world leaders to anger, causing them to act out of character, and inevitably committing untold atrocities.

“Specific disasters we can now hold him fully accountable for include WWII, the Irish Potato Famine, and more recently imposing VAR on the English Premier League.”

