 On 3 and 4 August 14 or more Yazidi children and some elderly or people with disabilities died of hunger, dehydration, and heat on Mount Sinjar.By 6 August, according to reports from survivors, 200 Yazidi children while fleeing to Mount Sinjar had died from thirst, starvation, heat and dehydration.Fifty thousand Yazidis, besieged by ISIL on Mount Sinjar, were able to escape after Kurdish People's Protection Units and PKK broke ISIL siege on the mountains.