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Retreating ISIS fanatics try to burn down an Iraqi town by flooding streets with oil after bombing pipelines and setting it alight

  • Dramatic pictures show rivers of oil running through the streets of war-torn Qayyara in northern Iraq
  • Thick smoke can be seen billowing into the sky after ISIS fanatics bombed pipelines and set fire to oil wells
  • ISIS retreated from city days ago and Iraqi army claims extremists are attempting to burn the city down
By JULIAN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE and REUTERS

PUBLISHED: 11:36 GMT, 30 August 2016 | UPDATED: 08:51 GMT, 1 September 2016


Desperate ISIS fanatics tried to burn down an Iraqi town they were forced to abandon by flooding its streets with oil and setting it alight.

Dramatic pictures show rivers of oil running through the streets just days after the extremists were forced to retreat from Qayyara in northern Iraq.

Thick black smoke can be seen billowing into the sky over the war-torn community after retreating ISIS brutes torched oil wells and blasted open pipelines.

Toxic fumes have blotted out the sun in central districts, producing an apocalyptic scene in the desert settlement which lacks electricity amid 49 degree Celsius temperatures.

The Iraqi army's Twitter account posted pictures of thick black oil in the streets along with the claim that ISIS had bombed pipes in a deliberate attempt to flood the area with oil and burn the city.

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Desperate ISIS fanatics have bombed oil pipelines in Iraq in a bid to flood and burn down a city they were forced to abandon. Pictures posted by the Iraqi army show oil running down the streets of Qayyara in the north of the country

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Thick black smoke can be seen billowing into the sky over the war-torn community after retreating ISIS brutes torched oil wells and blasted open pipelines

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Dramatic pictures show rivers of oil running through the streets just days after the extremists were forced to retreat from Qayyara in northern Iraq

The Iraqi military's recapture of Qayyara, along with a nearby airbase in July, is the latest and most significant advance in a U.S.-backed push to Mosul, the largest city under ISIS control anywhere in its self-proclaimed caliphate.
 
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During 1990 Invasion of Kuwait, there was a bigger ecological disaster when million of barrels of oil was leaked into the gulf
 
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