UN expresses ‘extreme concern’ as Sinjar violence claiming lives of 40 children

Irna – The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) expressed “extreme concern” Wednesday over reports that some 40 children from northern Iraq’s Yazidi minority group died as a result of the violence being carried out in the Sinjar region by militants belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other armed groups.