13,000 families flee Fallujah amid Iraq standoff

January 08, 2014 23:34

More than 13,000 families have fled Fallujah, NGOs said today, warning of a "critical" humanitarian situation as masked gunmen locked in a days-long standoff with Iraqi troops hold the city.

And though traffic police returned to its streets, some shops reopened and more cars could be seen, Fallujah was still hit by clashes and shelling, after an Al-Qaeda-linked group urged Sunnis to keep fighting the Shiite-led government.

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