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Islamic State militants have released 216 captured Yazidis in Iraq's Kirkuk province, according to a Kurdish official.
As the Associated Press reports, the captives are children, the elderly and the sick who were held for eight months by ISIS. The reason for their release hasn't been made immediately clear, CNN reports. The Yazidis were released to Kurdish Peshmerga forces and were sent to Irbil in northern Iraq.
Reuters reports that the released group also included two Christians.
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