By John Davison SHAHREZAD, Iraq (Reuters) – At the small mosque in Shahrezad village, piles of human faeces dot the toilets and rubbish is strewn around the garden. Fifty people are crammed into an abandoned and bombed-out home nearby, screening off its rooms with sheets for privacy, two days after fleeing fighting in Mosul for this area on its eastern outskirts. The army says the area is now safe and secure and it is distributing food to the displaced families, most of whom have come from the Intisar district, where Iraqi forces are battling Islamic State in an offensive to recapture Mosul, the militants’ last major stronghold in Iraq.
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Mosul families squat in squalor between frontline and camps