12,000 Kurdish families leave Mosul
18.04.2014 – Omar Awara – BasNews, Mosul – As a result of the conflict and violence in Nineveh province, almost 12,000 Yazidi and Shabak families have left the city. On Thursday, the Director of the Mosul Office, Mohammed Abd, told BasNews: “so far, 12,000 Yazidi and Shabak families, mostly Kurds, have left the city and migrated to other places in the province due to the on-going terrorist threats and attacks in the province.”
He also pointed out that, with the help of the province’s security office, the Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration is trying to stabilize the area and prevent people from leaving because of the effect it will have on the upcoming elections. Mosul is a city in northern Iraq and the capital of the Nineveh Province. It is located some 400 km (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad, close to the border of Syria. Based on the statistics of 2008, almost 1,800,000 people live in the city.