Kurdish forces and others aiding escape from Iraqi mountain: U.N.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Thousands of people from Iraq's Yazidi minority trapped on a mountain in northern Iraq by Islamic State militants have been able to escape in the past three days with help from Kurdish security forces and others, a U.N. official said on Monday.

Kieran Dwyer, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, declined to identify all who were involved except to say that various actors had put great effort into getting trapped people off Mount Sinjar.