Militants from the Islamic State burnt live a family of five in northern Iraq after they tried to flee from a district west of Kirkuk under the control of the jihadist group, according to a news report.
The family, which included two children, had defied an order from IS in the Riyadh district, forbidding resident to leave the area, said Syrian website Aranews.
Local witnesses claim IS has been using residents as human shields as it has come under pressure from a United States backed military campaign to route it from the areas it seized in a lightening sweep across the country's north and west in 2014.
Last month, IS forbade dozens of Christian families from leaving its stronghold in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa after the US-led international coalition intensified its raids on IS positions in the area.
The atrocity reported in Riyadh comes after IS militants burned an 80-year-old Christian woman alive in northern Iraq last May for failing to comply with their strict interpretation of Sharia law, according to a report by the independent BasNews agency.
The horrific punishment was carried out in the woman's village of Karamlish, 20 kilometres southeast of Mosul, BasNews said citing Kurdistan Democratic Party representative Saed Mamuzini.
IS burnt alive 45 combatants near the Ain al-Assad military base in Iraq's western al-Anbar province in February last year.
