For almost a week desperate neighbours had scraped through the rubble, searching for as many as 130 people who lay buried after three homes in a west Mosul suburb were destroyed by coalition airstrikes. The destruction took place in a district that was last week a frontline in the battle for Mosul. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Members of an Iraqi rescue crew dig through the rubble of a house in western Mosul. There were children shouting under the rubble. I lost them both.”Another man, Subhan Ismail Ibrahim, said his wife and three children had been killed in the same house.

Source: The Guardian March 24, 2017 18:33 UTC