Captured Yazidi girls in Iraq are killing themselves to escape rape and torture at the hands of Isis militants holding them prisoner.
Hundreds of women and children were captured during the group's bloody sweep through northern Iraq earlier this year and have since been trafficked as sex slaves , forced into marriage and imprisoned.
Victims who managed to escape told Amnesty International that many Yazidi girls killed themselves after losing hope of being saved.
A 20-year-old survivor, called Luna, said she was held with 20 girls as young as 10 in the Isis-controlled city of Mosul when they were told to dress up.
"One day we were given clothes that looked like dance costumes and were told to bathe and wear those clothes," she added. "Jilan killed herself in the bathroom. She cut her wrists and hanged herself. She was very beautiful.
"I think she knew that she was going to be taken away by a man and that is why she killed herself."
Another woman, 27-year-old Wafa, said she and her sister attempted suicide while imprisoned in Mosul after the man holding them gave them the choice of marrying him and his brother or being sold as slaves.
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