LINA BARAN spotted the missile as she was putting the washing out to dry. It struck the neighbouring apartment block, but as she helped to pull bodies from the rubble a second device exploded. Her hand was almost severed by shrapnel and her shoulder and stomach were injured.
“I staggered home bleeding badly. The children were so scared,” she said.
“I was in pain and it was hot. I remember feeling I was going to faint. The doctors told me they might have to amputate my hand.”
After their home town of Raqqa in northern Syria became a stronghold for Isis fighters, Baran, her husband, Ali, and their four children moved 300 miles to a flat on the outskirts of Erbil in northern Iraq.
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