Mosul families squat in squalor between frontline and camps

Displaced Iraqis queue for food after fleeing from their homes at Shahrezad village east of Mosul, Iraq November 11, 2016. REUTERS/Ari Jalal

SHAHREZAD, Iraq (Reuters) - At the small mosque in Shahrezad village, piles of human faeces dot the ablutions room and rubbish is strewn around the garden. Women with infants huddle in the prayer room and dozens of others have slept on thin blankets in the open air.

Fifty people are crammed into an abandoned and bombed-out home nearby, screening off its rooms with sheets for privacy, two days after fleeing fighting in Mosul for this area on its eastern outskirts.