Refugee camp in Mosul. Photo by user European Commission DG ECHO https://www.flickr.com/

14 September 2017, 21:15

Chechen children-returnees from Iraq need urgent treatment

The girl and the boy brought to Grozny today received burns during missile strikes in Mosul. Children need treatment and rehabilitation, said Ziyad Sabsabi, Russian Senator from Chechnya.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the above girl of eight and the boy of nine from Chechen families were brought by plane from Baghdad to Moscow and then to Grozny.

Both Chechen children had received burns during missile strikes on Mosul; they need to undergo treatment and rehabilitation, said Ziyad Sabsabi, who is representing the head of Chechnya in the Middle East and North Africa.

"These kids’ families have died; this information is reliable; the children survived, but they have severe burns, received as a result of missile strikes in Mosul," Ziyad Sabsabi said.

According to his story, the boy "was found under the ruins of the house after Mosul was liberated from terrorists." "His parents, a brother and two sisters perished. The soldier who found him thought the boy had explosives on him, but he managed to convince the man with a submachine gun that he was not mined. The girl's legs are badly burned. Right at the airport, doctors gave her the necessary help. Her parents and two brothers and a sister died on the spot," the message posted on the website of the Chechen leader quotes Mr Sabsabi as saying.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Source: CK correspondent

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