A three-year-old Iraqi girl wounded in a chemical attack by the Islamic State (ISIS) group died in hospital Friday, medical sources and officials said, according to AFP.

"She died of respiratory complications and kidney failure... caused by the mustard agent used by Daesh (ISIS) in Taza," said Masrour Aswad, of the Iraqi Commission for Human Rights, using the Arabic name for ISIS.

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