BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Gunmen are roaming a western Baghdad neighborhood Sunday and shooting unarmed Iraqis as soon as they have identified them as Sunnis, killing at least 40, Iraqi emergency police told CNN.
The gunmen are driving around the neighborhood of Hay al Jihad in several vehicles, checking Iraqis for their identification cards and shooting those who are Sunni, police said.
Police have called in U.S. and Iraqi forces to respond.
This comes after an insurgent attack on a Shiite place of prayer in Hay al Jihad Saturday night, which killed two and wounded 13 civilians, police said.
On Friday, a car bomb detonated outside a Sunni mosque in the same neighborhood, although the casualty count was not clear.
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