'I ran for my life as ISIS shot my eight months pregnant mother in the stomach'

The girl turned around as she fled and her father put his hands over her eyes as jihadis opened fire and killed her mother, who was eight months pregnant.

The traumatised teenager has gone temporarily blind after the horrors of what she saw. 

Dr Nemam Ghafouri also revealed how she treated a young man who was shot in the back and the shoulder after his entire village was wiped out when they refused to convert to Islam.

The refugee, Abass, 23, told her that 53 Yazidi men were forced to lie on the ground and shot dead.

Abass escaped and had to walk across desert for a week until he reached Dr Ghafouri for treatment. 

Theirs are just two horrific stories the doctor has been told since she started working at the Bajed Kandala Camp 2 in Dohuk, northern Iraq a year ago.

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, she told of the horrors she has encountered when she decided not to fly home to Sweden, where she’s from, last August and stay to help refugees instead.

She had no idea what she was heading into, she said.

'We got to the border, and we realised how big the catastrophe was,' she said. 'It was a disaster in many ways. Even the local authorities didn't grasp it.'

At the same time as she was making her way to the Dohuk region, Abass was defending his home from ISIS fighters on August 3.

When he ran out of bullets, he returned back to his mother's home in the village.

But the extremist militants were already lining up his neighbours and friends, one line for women, and one for men.

What happened to the women was unclear: he never saw his mother again. 

The ring leader of the group was an 'Arab' man who had been living next to the village for eight years until just days before the attack. They considered him a friend.

'They asked the men to become Muslim,' said Dr Ghafouri. 'When he told me the story, he did not want to mention the words they were asked to say.

'Then they told them to lie on the ground. I asked him if there was any resistance, and he said no. I think it is because they could not believe the man who they had helped over eight years would kill them.'

'He knew he should not move, and after 10 minutes everybody got quiet. He started to go towards his parents-in-law house.

'When he arrived, no one was there - and all there was were a couple of socks he could put on his wound.'

Bandaged with socks, he walked for seven days until he found help. On August 11, Dr Ghafouri and her team were finally able to operate in the refugee camp, now known as Bajed Kandala Camp 2.

At the time it was little more than a collection of tents, which built up 'person by person' to the settlement which exists today.

Dr Ghafouri, who was born in Iraq in the 1970s and claimed asylum in Sweden, has got used to stories like this. Harder, possibly, are the faces of the children who have witnessed such suffering first hand. More than half the camp is under the age of 15, and numerous babies are born each week. 

(dailymail.co.uk)