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Nick paton walsh reports. reporter: kobani feels haunted by those still alive in it. inhumane enough that the noise of coalition warplanes above is of strange comfort. the destruction so near complete it s more for victory alone not for its spoils. here, they ve even given up on hospitals. this, the last one, flattened when i a car bomb. the wounded now taken straight to the border. from the ground level inside the city you can see what months of fighting has done. absolute devastation, almost impossible to imagine this city sustaining life for any time in the near future but still fighting persists, the shelling almost constant so much caused by crude homemade devices like this. there are civilians here, but those who refuse or cannot flee. and children besieged. who cannot be protected from ....
The battle for control of the syrian city of kobani has dragged on for months. it s been a brutal battle. the city has been reduced to little more than rubble. with such destruction, you would think it would be a ghost town but you would be wrong. there are civilians still there even some children. many are trapped and so many of them obviously are desperate. our nick paton walsh shows us what it s like. reporter: kobani feels haunted by those who are still alive in it. inhumane enough that the noise of coalition warplanes above is of strange comfort. the destruction so near complete, the fight is more now for victory alone and not for its spoils. here they ve even given up on hospitals. this, the last one, flattened by a car bomb. the wounded now taken straight to the border. from the ground level inside the city, you can see what months of fighting has done. ....