Islamic State executes 5 civilians for trying to escape from western Mosul
The Islamic State in Mosul.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi army officer revealed on Monday that the Islamic State group executed five civilians in western Mosul for trying to escape toward the eastern side of the city.
Lieutenant Nayef al-Zubaidi said in a press statement, “Intelligence information declared that the Islamic State group executed five civilians for trying to flee from western Mosul toward the eastern side of the city.”
“The execution was carried out near the fifth bridge’s tunnel, in the presence of the extremist group’s leaders,” Zubaid added.
Furthermore, Islamic State called on the residents of western Mosul, through loud speakers, to practice fishing in the Tigris River to fight hunger, activist Lukman Omar Ta’i declared.
Ta’i said that the group called on for this solution after the spread of hunger among civilians in western Mosul.