Residents flee as battle for Mosul intensifies

MOSUL (Reuters) - Iraqi troops battled Islamic State fighters for control of a bridge over the River Tigris in Mosul on Tuesday as civilians streamed out of recaptured western neighbourhoods, cold, wet and hungry but relieved to be free of the militants' grip.

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