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MARCH FROM MOSUL'S HELL
Thousands flee after RAF jets blast ISIS truck bombs and troops as Iraqi forces battle to retake Mosul
BRITISH war jets blasted ISIS truck bombs and troops as desperate suicide squads continued to thwart Iraqi forces battling to retake Mosul yesterday.
The RAF took part in strikes around the northern Iraqi city, destroying a lorry packed with high explosives as it was steered towards the front line.
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British aircraft were also revealed to have hit ground troops carrying improvised bombs and anti-tank guns on the third day of the pivotal ground offensive.
But kamikaze maniacs were continuing to hold up the push towards the terror group’s Iraqi power base yesterday.
Terrifying video footage emerged of a jihadi maniac detonating his suicide vest as he was captured by Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
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He triggered the devices after being wounded, sending his mutilated body spiralling into the air.
Kurdish soldiers could be seen riddling him with more bullets on the ground but his suicide blast failed to injure anyone else.
US troops supporting the crucial push with British special forces said evidence had emerged that ISIS cowards were using civilians as human shields.
They also torched oil wells in an echo of Saddam Hussein’s tactics in Kuwait in 1991.
The tactic was seen as ISIS were driven out of 10 villages on the outskirts of Mosul in the latest stage of the operation mounted by Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
But commanders who urged entrenched jihadi fighters to surrender said it could still take weeks or months to oust them after saluting early successes.
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And humanitarian crisis was looming as thousands of desperate civilians began fleeing the imminent bloodbath.
About 5,000 people, mostly women and children, have already arrived at the Al Hol camp from the
Mosul area in the last 10 days with at least 1,000 more gathering at the border.
Many had already paid people smugglers amid concern some would attempt to head further west into Europe.
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Up to one million people could be forced to flee as a final assault nears and many will need shelter.
UK Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said the liberation of Mosul would be a “big moment” in the war against ISIS, also known as Daesh.
Officials revealed a British Reaper drone was in action south-east of the Mosul, attacking a mortar position, an armed truck and IS anti-tank teams.
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A Typhoon fighter south of Mosul blitzed another truck bomb with a Paveway IV guided bomb.
Another Reaper later targeted two groups of IS fighters and an armed truck, while Typhoons to the north-east of the city hit targets including improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
Up to 1.5million people including 5,000 terror troops are believed to be inside Mosul as coalition forces close in on three sides.
Allied forces in the outlying village of Al-Shura south of Mosul screened groups of heavily bearded men who said they had been banned from shaving or smoking by ISIS.
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