Four-year-old girl dies after being rescued from well in Iraq's Nineveh

A four-year-old girl, Hajar, has died at an Erbil hospital hours after rescue teams pulled her alive from a well in Nineveh province, Iraq.

• Hajar fell into an abandoned well southeast of Mosul near her home in the Kawir subdistrict on Sunday evening and was extracted after roughly seven hours.
• Iraqi federal civil defense and Erbil's Kurdistan regional civil defense teams carried out the joint rescue operation.
• Nineveh Health Directorate director Dilshad Shangali announced Hajar died at an Erbil hospital from injuries sustained in the fall, despite first-aid efforts.