Isis among names removed from UN list of hurricane names

April 18, 2015 13:27

Isis has been removed from the official list of names of future hurricanes as it was now deemed inappropriate because of the eponymous militant group, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said.

As the name of an ancient goddess of Egypt, Isis had been on the WMO list of names for hurricanes in the eastern North Pacific in 2016, WMO spokeswoman Clare Nullis said. But ISIS is also used to describe the Islamic State militant group, whose forces have captured large swathes of Iraq and Syria and which stands accused by UN war crimes investigators of committing brutal atrocities against civilians.

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