Three children killed by IS shelling in east Mosul
ISIS members. File photo.
Mosul (BasNews) An Islamic State (IS) offensive on the previously liberated east Mosul killed and injured a number of civilians including children.
A source from Nineveh province told BasNews “three children were killed and five other civilians wounded as a result of the IS shelling on al-Jazair area in east Mosul.”
The source added that the militants also shot a civilian dead while he was attempting to escape to the liberated areas in the city of Mosul.
Meanwhile the Iraqi special and police forces are leading a fierce fight against the IS militants in west Mosul, attempting to recapture the al-Nuri Mosque in the Old City where the IS leader Abubakir al-Baghdadi proclaimed a caliphate in Iraq and Syria in the summer of 2014.