ISIS shells liberated areas’ residents with mortar shells
Displaced families. File photo.
Nineveh – (IraqiNews.com) Residents of a number of liberated areas in Nineveh province revealed, that the Islamic State extremist group is trying to take revenge against the residents by bombing them with mortar shells due to their collaboration with security forces, Alsumaria News reported on Sunday.
Alsumaria News stated, “The residents of liberated areas said that the ISIS members who fled toward other neighborhoods after the arrival of security forces are trying to take revenge against the residents by shelling them with mortar shells,” pointing out that, “The remaining ISIS militants are attacking the liberated area from other areas that still controlled by them.”
“The ISIS members are shelling the neighborhoods of Tahrir and Zahraa with mortar shells, as well as attacking these areas with booby-trapped vehicles from nearby neighborhoods such as al-Nahda in the western coast of Mosul,” Alsumaria explained.
The residents also declared that a number of families started to leave their liberated houses and neighborhoods toward the IDP camps, due to the mortar attacks that resulted in the killing of many civilians and destruction of houses.