Mosul families trapped on the frontline of the war against Isis: 'What can we do?' Read more“We’re in the plane with the animals, we’re leaving now,” said Amir Khalil, a 52-year-old Egyptian-Austrian vet who headed the Four Paws mission. When Four Paws reached the zoo, nobody had entered the cages in weeks and no other animals apart from the female bear and the male lion had survived. “I’m a vet – I have to look after these animals,” said Khalil, a kind of “roving war zone veterinarian”. As the animal welfare team cautiously extracted the animals from the abandoned zoo, Ahmed Manhel looked on.

Source: The Guardian April 11, 2017 03:45 UTC