fighters. turns out there were more than 30,000 families, wives and children and in terms of the number of isis fighters we are talking about thousands that were in there. some of them surrendered and others are fighting inside the camp behind me. and ben, tell us how you and your crew has been staying safe. this is certainly a dangerous assignment you re undertaking there. we have seen this from all of the pictures coming in from you. we spent much of our time with helmets and jackets. we keep down to the best we can. when we see that it s not a good time to stay where we are we move back to safer ground. it s common sense. indeed.
our head a little while ago. they seem to have gone out for now. this is where earlier in the day we watched people walk around. we saw a white truck passing by. there was an isis flag in that spot as well. listen to this. that was an air strike i believe. and ben is joining us from eastern syria. detail for us what you re seeing on the ground right now. at the moment we are seeing some tracers being fired into what s left of the so called islamic state. about an hour ago however we were actually we had our heads down. we were sleeping and woken up by four massive explosions, huge fire coming up from the area behind me.
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since then it s been some what quieter. i haven t seen much in the way of returned fire from the isis positions but what we saw really going back to when the sun went down as soon as it was dark all held broke loose after a relatively quiet day. what we saw was mortar barrages and lots being fired into that camp. honestly how anybody could have survived the last few hours is anyone s guess. and that is the thing. this is the third operation to free to town. there are tens of thousands who have been trying to flee. tell us about this. yes. from the very beginning more than a month ago now we were told there were a mere 1,500 civilians and perhaps 500
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