Dozens of families escape from Mosul to Raqqa to avoid air bombing
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) On Tuesday, a security source in Nineveh province said, that dozens of families in Mosul have begun escaping from the city, fearing from being bombed by the international coalition warplanes.
The source informed IraqiNews, “Dozens of residents of the city of Mosul began to leave and go to al-Raqqa, an ISIS-seized city in northeast of Syria,” noting that, “Mosul families began to escape fearing from being bombed by the international coalition warplanes, especially after the ISIS group militants started digging a ditch around the city.”
Noteworthy, officials in the Kurdistan Democratic Party revealed earlier this week, that ISIS militants started digging a ditch around Mosul and Baashiqa for the purpose of resisting offensive operations by the government forces.
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