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[caption id="attachment_14052" align="alignnone" width="580"] The cafe where the ISIS militants carried on the brutal attack. Image Source: scoopnest.com[/caption] Internet Desk: In a brutal act of terrorism around 16 fans of Spanish football giants Real Madrid were killed in a café in Iraq by ISIS militants on Friday. The fans gathered in the café to discuss about the arrangement for Real Madrid’s match against Deportivo La Coruna on Saturday. Real Madrid players will wear black armbands in Saturday's match "as a sign of their mourning and respect," the club said. "The club expresses its great sadness and offers its regards and condolences to the families and friends of the victims," Real Madrid said in a statement Friday. "Real Madrid extends all of its solidarity to the people of Iraq, who suffer the excessive injustices of extreme violence," the club said. According to eyewitness, "Suddenly, six armed men stormed into the cafe and started to shoot randomly on the young men. 1 lied down on the ground." The attack on the café in Balad, a city about 50 miles north of Baghdad, occurred early Friday morning. The gunmen included two suicide bombers who detonated explosive vests after police arrived, according to Iraqi officials. Fourteen people were killed outright, and two more died of their wounds later. Although officially it was declared that 13 were killed, but a statement released by the football club said 16 supporters were killed. The terror group ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack hours after the attack, according to agencies. It is not the first time ISIS has targeted soccer fans. In March, a suicide bomber attacked a soccer stadium in Iskandriyah, southern Baghdad, killing at least 26 people and wounding 71. The attack on the café came on the heels of a two-day wave of bombings in Baghdad that killed nearly 100 people — attacks that have also been claimed by the Islamic State group. The deadliest struck the sprawling Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in northeast Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 63 people.