Islamic State frees around 350 Yazidi captives in Iraq's north

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Islamic State frees around 350 Yazidi captives in Iraq's north

KIRKUK, Iraq Sat Jan 17, 2015 12:25pm EST

Jan 17 (Reuters) - Islamic State freed around 350 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority on Saturday, delivering them to safety in the country's Kurdish north.

Almost all those released were elderly, disabled, or unwell, and included several infants with serious illnesses, according to a Reuters reporter who saw them arrive in the Kurdish-controlled city of Kirkuk.

Islamic State militants attacked Yazidis in northwest Iraq last summer, killing or capturing and enslaving thousands of the minority group.

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One of the freed Yazidis, who was in his 70s, said Islamic State fighters had ordered them to get into buses on Saturday, and they feared they were going to be executed.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/17/mideast-crisis-yazidis-idUSL6N0UW0HT20150117

[Kaleva]

1. Apparently, the Daesh couldn't care for them and for some reason...

didn't kill them outright.