ISIS slaughters more than 200 people and abduct nearly 8,000 families to use as human shields as it retreats into the centre of Mosul

  • Jihadis have slaughtered over 200 people in and around the city of Mosul
  • They were shot dead by ISIS for apparently refusing to follow their orders
  • Jihadis have also abducted 8,000 civilians and taken them to city centre 
  • There are fears the terror group will now try to use them as human shields  

By Jennifer Newton for MailOnline

Published: 04:49 EST, 28 October 2016 | Updated: 17:35 EST, 28 October 2016

Hundreds of Iraqis have been murdered for defying Islamic State orders to become human shields.

Some 232 civilians were shot on Wednesday alone after they refused to help the jihadists. 

ISIS slaughtered more than 200 people and abducted nearly 8,000 families from their homes around Mosul before taking them to the centre of the city to use as human shields.

The United Nations Human Rights Office says at least 232 people in and around the city were shot dead for refusing to follow their orders as Iraqi forces advanced and jihadis retreated. 

They also added that men, women and children in villages around Mosul have also been kidnapped and taken into central military installations where the terror group plan to use the tens of thousands of people as a human shield.

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ISIS has slaughtered more than 200 people and abducted nearly 8,000 families from their homes around Mosul. Pictured is a family trying to flee the frontline of fighting in Qayyarah 

A UN spokeswoman said: 'Last Wednesday 232 civilians were reportedly shot to death. Of these there were 190 former Iraqi Security Forces officers.

'These reports have been corroborated to the extent possible,' she added, stressing that the number of people killed in recent days could be higher. 

It comes as Iraqi government troops and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are facing stiff resistance as they advance on the city of Mosul as they try to freed it from the rule of jihadis. 

Now 10 days into the battle of Mosul, special forces are still four miles to the east of the city and are constantly having to dodge ISIS firing mortars and armoured suicide truck bombs trundling across the arid plains.

Displaced Iraqis arrive at a refugee camp. The UN says more than 8,000 families have been abducted by the terror group 

Men, women and children have been flee to refugee camps. It comes as ISIS slaughtered more than 200 people who refused to follow their orders 

Once inside the small, sparsely populated villages that ring Mosul, Iraqi forces must contend with explosive booby-traps and hidden snipers.

Elsewhere 22 civilians were electrocuted when ISIS suspected they had been collaborating with government forces. 

The fortifications in Mosulare expected to grow even more lethally daunting once they enter Iraq's second-largest city.

The extremists captured the city in a matter of days in 2014, and have had more than two years to build up its defenses and brutally root out any internal opposition. 

The operation to retake the northern city is expected to take weeks, if not months.

Iraqi forces approaching Mosul from the south, meanwhile, are still 20 miles from the city, and the special forces to the east said they will not push ahead until the other forces are able to tighten the noose.

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters celebrate after recapturing the Fadiliya village from ISIS, who are putting up a strong resistance 

Now 10 days into the battle of Mosul, special forces are still four miles to the east of the city and are constantly having to dodge ISIS firing mortars and armoured suicide truck bombs trundling across the arid plains

Iraqi army Major General Najim al-Jabori said forces south of Mosul retook the town of Staff al-Tut in the Tigris River valley on Wednesday, and said local tribal and militia forces have been deployed to protect the gains while his troops regroup for their next advance.

Meanwhile, during cleanup operations in the area of Tob Zawa, his men found a tire shop that had been converted into a factory for making roadside bombs and attaching armor to vehicles.

They also found a tunnel equipped with fans and lights that ran from beneath a mosque out to a road.

 

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