Tap water in Syrian city under ISIS control is an undrinkable brown sludge filled with worms after Islamic State engineer in charge of the water plant steals its funds and goes on the run
- Reports of long 'white worms' appearing in filthy water in Al-Tabaqa, Syria
- ISIS say engineer ran away with cash from the water plant he was running
- Concerns residents are now suffering increasingly with health problems
Tap
water in a Syrian city under Islamic State control has turned into an
undrinkable brown sludge filled with worms, it has been reported.
The
quality of drinking water in Al-Tabaqa, west of Raqqa, worsened after
the ISIS engineer in charge of the water plant went on the run having
stolen cash from the facility, it has been claimed.
There
have been reports of long 'white worms' appearing in the filthy tap
water amid concerns residents are suffering increasingly with health
problems.
Tap water in ISIS controlled Al-Tabaqa
has turned into an undrinkable brown sludge filled with worms, it has
been reported. Islamic State militants are pictured driving into nearby
Raqqa
According to the website Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), water supplies are 'undrinkable' after engineer Ibraheem Othman went on the run.
The website says it contacted ISIS bosses who revealed the engineer's escape.
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It says there has been 'an absence of all kinds of water sterilisation' since ISIS seized control of the city.
The
water quality crisis has deepened since the Red Crescent humanitarian
group's base was closed down in January this year, RBSS said, adding
that the charity used to provide chlorine to purify water and help
maintain water plants in the area.
The quality of drinking water in
Al-Tabaqa (pictured), west of Raqqa, worsened after the ISIS engineer in
charge of the water plant went on the run having stolen cash from the
facility, it has been claimed
The website added that child diarrhoea and dysentery cases had jumped up to more than 600 per cent normal levels in Raqqa.
Meanwhile,
residents are struggling to afford the price of safer bottled water
amid reports ISIS has also upped water bills in the area, RBSS says.
The
report emerged days after it was revealed the Syrian army had carried
out a wave of airstrikes in Raqqa, the self-declared capital of the
Islamic State group.
Two
Syria-based groups as well as the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said warplanes carried out at least 12 airstrikes across
the city last Thursday.
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