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Iraqi government officials have accused Islamic State (Isis) extremists of shooting dead at least 50 people from the same tribe Sunday morning.
The public executions raise the death toll suffered by the Sunni Al Bu Nimr tribe in recent days to 150.
They took place in the village of Ras al-Maa, north of the provincial capital Ramadi.
Tribal senior Sheikh Naim al-Gaoud said that the group had killed at least 40 men, six women and four children in the village, lining them up and shooting them one by one.
The militants also kidnapped another 17 people, he said.
Isis death squads wiped out 50 members of the tribe on Friday, having killed 48 the previous day.
Some Sunnis in Anbar supported Isis when its forces seized Fallujah and parts of Ramadi in December, following widespread protests against the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad.
Since then, however, Sunni tribes have been fundamental in stalling the Isis advance, taking up arms and fighting alongside Iraqi security forces.
Ramadi has yet to fall, in part because of key Sunni tribes in the city. The Jughaifi and al-Bunimer tribes have helped Iraqi special forces protect the Haditha Dam in Anbar.
In the town of Dhuluiyah, the al-Jabbouri tribe has been the sole resistance to an Isis militant takeover.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and his new government have vowed to create a community-driven national guard to empower local tribes.
Other tribes have not been won over, allying themselves with Isis as a means of challenging the Shi'ite-led government.
A car bomb attack near tents serving Shi'ite pilgrims killed 14 people and wounded 32 in Baghdad Sunday.
Police and medical officials said that the bombing in the Bayaa district struck as people delivered food to pilgrims heading to the holy city of Karbala to mark the religious holiday of Ashoura.
A later roadside bomb targeting an army patrol killed two soldiers and wounded four in Baghdad's western suburb of Abu Ghraib, while a device in a commercial street in the eastern al-Ameen district killed three people and wounded four.
