ISIS face total oblivion in Mosul as Iraqi army captures 70% of the terror city – but experts say Mosul Dam could collapse at any time killing MILLIONS

ISIS are set to be wiped out in eastern Mosul amid news that an eight mile long dam could collapse at "any moment and kill millions of people".

Iraqi forces have retaken around 70 per cent of eastern Mosul and are expecting to reach the Tigris River that divides the northern city in the coming days.

Lieutenant General Talib Shaghati, Iraq's joint operations commander, has said people living in the city have helped his forces to advance.

But as the city edges towards "full liberation" engineers and experts have warned the Mosul Dam, 40 miles away from the city which shares its name, could collapse.

Engineers have claimed if the structure crumbles it could leave 1.5 million people dead and many more without food or electricity.

The "most dangerous dam in the world" holds 11.1billion cubic metres of water but is problematic because it was built on soluble ground.

It has required constant maintenance to stop it from collapsing since it was built in the 1980s.

Professor Nadhir al-Ansari of the Environmental Engineering Department at Lulea University in Sweden said: "It is just a matter of time (before it collapses).

"It will be worse than throwing a nuclear bomb on Iraq."
An engineering report from US Army Corps in 2006 found the Mosul Dam to be "the most dangerous in the world".

The situation is said to have become more dangerous since ISIS took control of the area in 2014.

Many of the 1,500 workers there fled and ISIS thugs damaged much of their equipment.

A study in 2015 found that even if just 26 per cent of it breached the consequences would be disastrous.

A wave of water up to 100 feet high would apparent swamp Mosul in two hours whilst picking up civilians, unexploded bombs and cars.

The EU and US experts predicted a wave up to 36 feet high would reach Baghdad.

The UN predicted that if the dam burst it will leave 4million people homeless.

World Bank funds are paying for  a £234million repair job to be carried out, but the violence in Mosul is making the work difficult to complete.

Iraqi, Kurdish and Turkish forces backed by the US are leading an offensive against ISIS in Mosul which is now in its 12th week.

Lieutenant Shaghati said: "Roughly 65 to 70 percent of the eastern side has been liberated."

He added: "I think in the coming few days we will see the full liberation of the eastern side."

The western half is still under full ISIS control.

Lieutenant General Qassem Mohammedi, commander of the Jazeera Operations Command, said: "A military operation has begun in the western areas of Anbar liberate them from Daesh (ISIS)."

The barbaric terror group is desperately trying to hold on to its last urban stronghold by using suicide car bombs and snipers.

Degenerate ISIS thugs are also embedding themselves among the civilian population to stave off attacks.

In December last year a moronic ISIS suicide bomber accidentally blew himself up after driving into a ditch.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said the death cult will be eliminated from his country within three months.

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