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Hundreds flee Mosul fighting as others return to former IS areas

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MOSUL: Heavy two-way traffic of carts carrying children, clothes, and the elderly crowded the main Baghdad-Mosul road on Sunday as hundreds of Iraqis fled heavy fighting or made their way back to areas seized back from IS. Families paid no heed to the sound of heavy mortar, artillery and machine gun fire raging in the background as US-trained Iraqi forces battled IS some two km away. Some had walked miles to a government checkpoint where the men were placed in army trucks and sent for security screening to ensure no militant sleeper cells get out of the city. Women and children were put on buses and sent to camps housing hundreds of thousands, some displaced since the offensive to retake the IS stronghold began in October. A group of young men further inside the city sat on the street as soldiers gave them back identification cards they had taken to conduct background checks before letting them go. — Reuters


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