UN refugee agency estimates that 1.8 million citizens have been internally displaced in 2014 throughout Iraq
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR said on Tuesday around 180,000 people fled from the central Iraq town of Hit after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or the ISIL, and affiliated armed groups captured the town last weekend.
"Tens of thousands of desperate Iraqis are now caught in a rolling wave of multiple displacement amidst the conflict's shifting frontlines," UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming said in a press conference in UN headquarters in Geneva on Tuesday.
UNHCR estimated that 1.8 million citizens have been internally displaced in 2014 throughout Iraq.
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