MOSUL, Iraq, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Water supplies have been cut off to around 650,000 residents in the Iraqi city of Mosul after a pipeline was hit during fighting between the army and Islamic State, a local official said on Tuesday.
Mosul edges towards full siege, families struggle to find food
"The maintenance team cannot reach the pipeline because it lies in an area being fought over," Hussam al-Abar, a member of Mosul's Nineveh provincial council, told Reuters in one of the 15 districts and suburbs of the city where water was cut off.
"We are facing a humanitarian catastrophe."
(Reporting by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Dominic Evans)
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