Girl left with horror injuries from landmine blast while escaping her captors

THESE are the horrific injuries left to the face of young Yazidi sex slave - blown up by a landmine during a desperate attempt to flee her depraved ISIS captors.

Lamiya Aji Bashar, 18, was one of an estimated 3,000 women and girls held as sex slaves by the Islamic jihadis.

She finally escaped on her fifth attempt - but it came at a terrible cost.

As her former enslavers pursued her towards government-controlled territory, a landmine exploded killing her companions 8-year-old Almas and Katherine, 20.

The explosion left Lamiya blind in her right eye, her face scarred by melted skin. Saved by the man who smuggled her out, she counts herself among the lucky.

She said: "I managed in the end, thanks to God, I managed to get away from those infidels.

"Even if I had lost both eyes, it would have been worth it, because I have survived them."

Lamiya was abducted from the village of Kocho, near the town of Sinjar, in the summer of 2014. Her parents are presumed dead.

Somewhere, she said, her nine-year-old sister Mayada remains captive. One photo she managed to send to the family shows the little girl standing in front of an ISIS flag.

Five other sisters all managed to escape and later were relocated to Germany. A younger brother, kept for months in an ISIS training camp in Mosul, also slipped away and is now staying with other relatives in Dahuk, a city in the Iraqi Kurdish region.

Sitting very still and speaking in a monotone, Lamiya recounted her captivity, describing how she was passed from one ISIS follower to another, all of whom beat and violated her. She was determined to escape.

She said her first "owner" was an Iraqi ISIS commander who went by the name Abu Mansour in the city of Raqqa, the de-facto ISIS capital deep in Syria.

He brutalized her, often keeping her handcuffed.

She tried to run away twice but was caught, beaten and raped repeatedly. After a month, she said, she was sold to another ISIS extremist in Mosul.

After she spent two months with him, she was sold again, this time to a bomb-maker who Lamiya said forced her to help him make suicide vests and car bombs.

"I tried to escape from him," she said. "And he captured me, too, and he beat me."

When the bomb-maker grew bored with her, she was handed over to an ISIS doctor in Hawija, a small Iraqi town. She said the doctor, who was the ISIS head of the town hospital, also abused her.

From there, after more than a year, she managed to contact her relatives in secret.

Her uncle said the family paid local smugglers $800 to arrange Lamiya's escape. She will be reunited with her siblings in Germany, but despite everything, her heart remains in Iraq.

"We had a nice house with a big farm. I was going to school," she said. "It was beautiful."

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