IS leaves booby traps in wake of withdrawal

A massage belt, a PlayStation controller, a gold ring - it sounds like a gift list, but the items the Islamic State group left in Iraq are rigged with explosives to kill.

The jihadists still sow death long after they depart, and as Iraqi Kurdish forces regain ground, they - and the civilians returning to their homes - face the threat of unexploded bombs and booby traps.

"These people were very imaginative, like devils," said Marwan Sydo Hisn, a Kurdish bomb disposal expert currently based in Sinuni, a town in the northwestern Sinjar area that was recaptured from IS fighters in late December.