Suspected ISIS fighters attacked refugees ‘safe haven’ outside Mosul – RT reporter

The city of Hamam al-Alil is of strategic importance, “because there are thousands of refugees fleeing western Mosul head to this city, from where they are relocated to various refugee camps.”

“It has been very difficult to piece together what happened. The Iraqi soldiers that we’ve spoken to are being very tight-lipped about it, and the locals seem confused. They were told to stay indoors,” Murad Gazdiev explained.

According to various people the reporter has spoken to, there were from five to 15 Islamic State militants who infiltrated the area near the city.

It remains unclear how they were able to get through all the security checkpoints if they arrived from Mosul. However, this could be explained another way – the terrorists may have come with the refugees and “hid among them and… somehow acquired weapons in Hamam al-Alil.”

The latest news comes amid a massive outpouring of civilians from western Mosul, with almost 100,000 Iraqis escaping the war-torn city in the past month, according to figures from the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM).

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