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IN THE FIRING LINE
Dramatic moment news reporter is caught up in terrifying firefight with ISIS as Iraqi troops storm Mosul
Aussie correspondent Mark Burrow casually carries on reporting as rocket-propelled grenades are fired around him
THIS Aussie reporter kept a cool head - despite being shot at by ISIS fighters just a few hundred yards away.
Fearless Mark Burrows carried on reporting from the outskirts of Mosul even though the Iraqi soldiers he was embedded with came under intense rounds of fire.
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The 9News war correspondent and his cameraman continue working as they huddle beside a building near the Iraqi city.
Around them, Iraqi forces let off bursts of machine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades at the jihadists dug in just a few hundred metres away.
Burrows casually remarks: "We've just made contact with some ISIS militants.
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"That was an RPG that was fired straight at them."
A coalition of the Iraqi army, Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Sunni and Shi'ite groups are moving in on the ISIS stronghold of Mosul.
More than 1.5million civilians are believed to remain in Iraq's third-largest city, terrorised by as many as 5,000 jihadists.
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Liberating forces are now within a few hundred yards of the city, which has been held since 2014.
But they have warned the final battle could prove a bloodbath as fanatics career explosive-laden suicide trucks at the attackers' lines.
Shi’ite militia fighter Hadi al-Amiri warned Reuters: “The battle of Mosul will not be a picnic.
“We are prepared for the battle, even if it lasts for months”.
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