ISIS rounds up 25,000 'human shields' in buses and trucks and transports them to Kirkuk in latest desperate bid to stop the advance of Iraqi troops
- Civilians taken some 100 miles form Sharqat precinct to Kirkuk in Iraq
- The residents' ID cards and food were confiscated before being herded
- ISIS used loudspeakers in mosques to evacuate thousands of people
- Kirkuk raid is being seen as a ploy to divert attention away from Mosul
ISIS fighters
have rounded up 25,000 civilians in buses and trucks to use them as
human shields in Kirkuk in the latest attempt to stop the advance of
Iraqi troops.
They
were taken from the west side of Salahuddin's Sharqat precinct to
Hawija, Kirkuk, where they had their food and IDs taken from them.
Last
month, as coalition forces tightened its grip on Mosul, Islamic State
fighters launched a counter attack on Kirkuk in a bid to reclaim some
power.
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Civilians were taken from the west
side of Salahuddin's Sharqat precinct to Hawija, Kirkuk, (pictured)
where they had their food and IDs taken from them
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Ali Al-Dawdah of Iraq's municipal office told Iraqi News
the reason for taking IDs was to hide their identities from any
security searches and added: 'The terrorist group brought huge buses and
trucks, forcing nearly 25.000 civilians to move to Hawija, southwest of
Kirkuk.'
'ISIS called upon the people through mosques loudspeakers to evacuate the western area.'
Kirkuk
is some 108 miles south east of Mosul, and the Sharqat precinct in
Salahuddin is roughly the same distance to the west of Kirkuk.
On
Monday, hundreds of families were driven out of the Iraqi city of
Kirkuk in apparent retaliation for a recent attack by the Islamic State
group, Amnesty International said.
Authorities
in the Kurdish-controlled city demolished the homes of hundreds of Arab
residents and ordered them to leave Kirkuk in the wake of the attack on
October 21, the London-based rights group said.
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