Experts have stated that waves of up to 45ft would be unleashed if the dam breaks
Daily Mail: 'It would be worse than a nuclear bomb': Allied troops and ISIS battle for collapsing Mosul Dam that would send 45-foot tidal wave hundreds of miles and kill 1.5MILLION people if it breaches
* The Mosul Dam is holding back a massive 11trillion litres of water from the city
* The dam was built on an unstable foundation that continuously erodes
* Weakened when ISIS seized it briefly in 2014 prompting maintenance lapse
* Fears collapse cold unleash 45ft waves devastating Mosul and flooding Baghdad
Allied troops and ISIS are set to battle for a collapsing dam that would spew nearly 600 times the water of the River Thames onto Mosul if it breaches.
Engineers from an Italian company have been tasked with fixing the Mosul Dam's foundations to stop more than 11 trillion litres of water (11.11billion cubic metres) from flooding Mosul.
Experts are warning their work could be in vain, and should the catastrophe happen, it is estimated 1.5million people could be killed by the floods in an impact described as 'worse than a nuclear bomb'.
Waves of up to 45ft would be unleashed if the dam breaks, and the equivalent to 4.4million Olympic size swimming pools would flood the surrounding areas amid a constant threat from Islamic State terrorists fleeing the Iraqi city.
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Update #1: Collapse of Mosul Dam 'will be worse than a nuclear bomb' (Digital Journal)
Update #2: Iraq Facing Potential 'Catastrophe of Biblical Proportions' (Newser)
WNU Editor: A nuclear bomb (depending on its yield) will probably be worse .... but such a dam collapse would be catastrophic for all those who live downstream.
