“To prevent potential attacks from Iraqi forces against [ISIS militants], the gunmen have been building concrete walls inside the city and around the main entrance ways,” Sido Chito, head of Coalition of Brotherhood and Coexistence of Mosul Province, told Rudaw on Friday.
Chito added that “the group has been moving farming products, including wheat, out of the province over the past several days using their trucks.”
Iraqi defense minister announced in March the Islamic State had begun digging trenches and erecting other fortifications for the defense of the city.
Baghdad has vowed to retake Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, in coming months.
