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IRAQI special forces continued to advance into Isis-occupied Mosul yesterday, driving the terror group from the city’s huge university campus.
Residents of the newly liberated neighbourhood of Andalus told troops that Isis fighters had fled just an hour before soldiers approached the area, using bulldozers to push aside roadblocks.
Iraqi General Abdel Ghani as-Asadi said the advance was slow because of the fear of bombs, but six suicide car bombers who attacked the army were “disabled” with artillery fire as they were not heavily armoured.
It has taken the coalition of the Iraqi army, special forces and Shi’ite militias around four months to capture almost all of eastern Mosul, and they are now approaching the River Tigris which bisects the city.
The United Nations reported that 32,000 residents of Mosul have fled the city in the past two weeks, bringing the total number of people displaced by the fighting to 161,000.
