Incredible new images have emerged showing the massive clean operation of Kobane - the northern Syrian city that was besieged by Islamic State militants for more than four months. Having being chased out of the city by brave local resistance fighters and sustained U.S-led airstrikes, the terrorists' rotting bodies now litter the streets of the predominantly Kurdish city.
Despite the militants having brought rape and massacre to the local population and leaving the once-bustling ancient city as little more than rubble-strewn ruins, the Kurds insist on giving dead ISIS fighters a proper burial wherever possible.
But with collapsed buildings at every turn, the locals face a race against time to clear the rapidly decaying corpses from beneath the rubble and ensure disease and sickness does not hit the hundreds of Kobane residents now returning to their homes in the wake of ISIS' retreat.
A committee was founded 19 days ago to oversee the massive clean-up operation in Kobane, with the removal of the hundreds of rotting terrorist corpses littering the streets the Kurds' priority.
Speaking to
MailOnline on his return to the city, Shahine said:
Disease is something the local authorities in Kobane will not allow. The board will not allow the local civilians to come back into destroyed areas until they are completely free of bodies.'
Source: MailOnline
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