Up To 35,000 Refugees Escape Mount Sinjar

The UN says up to 35,000 refugees have escaped Iraq's Mount Sinjar and are "exhausted" and "dehydrated".

Thousands, who faced starvation on the mountain, managed to reach northern Iraq's Kurdistan region through Syria over the past three days.

"The new arrivals are exhausted, dehydrated and many have suffered sun or heat stroke, with the daily temperatures reaching 40C to 45C," said UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards.

Meanwhile, an Iraqi helicopter delivering aid to the minority Yazidi sect on the mountain has crashed, Iraq's military spokesman Lt Gen Qassim al Moussawi told state television.

He said it was a Russian-made helicopter but gave no details on casualties.

Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled their homes to Sinjar after Islamic State fighters gave them an ultimatum to convert to Islam or die.

The Iraqi military as well as the US and UK have been flying supplies to help them.

Elsewhere in Iraq, two car bombs killed 12 people in Baghdad, police sources said.

A witness said he saw black smoke rising from the Karada area of the capital.

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