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The Daesh group has been shooting at civilians as they try to flee the fighting between Iraqi government forces and Daesh militants in the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, an international aid organisation says.
A number of those fleeing civilians have been killed as they tried to cross the Euphrates River, the Norwegian Refugee Council, said in a report late Sunday. The NRC, which works with refugees and internally displaced Iraqis, cited interviews with some of those who fled in its report late on Sunday.
Iraqi forces, backed by US-led coalition airstrikes, have been fighting to retake the Daesh-held city of Fallujah since late May but the advance stalled last week because of heavy resistance the militants have put up and because an estimated 50,000 civilians remain trapped inside the city.
"Our biggest fears are now tragically confirmed with civilians being directly targeted while trying to flee to safety," said Nasr Muflahi, the NRC Country Director in Iraq. "This is the worst that we feared would happen to innocent men, women and children who have had to leave everything behind in order to save their lives."
The NRC put the total number of families who managed to flee from the outskirts of Fallujah in the early days of the Iraqi offensive, which started May 21, at 2,980.
Only a couple more families have managed to escape from inside Fallujah since then, the NRC added.
On Sunday, Iraqi forces secured the southern edge of Fallujah, a largely agricultural area.
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