article_snippet.sent: The 216 prisoners, including 40 children, believed The 216 prisoners, including 40 children were being led to The 216 prisoners, including 40 children execution, but instead, were piled onto minibuses that drove The 216 prisoners, including 40 children to a handover southwest of Kirkuk .
article_snippet.sent: : A mother hugs here young child in celebration at being released.
article_snippet.sent: About 40 children were among those released .
article_snippet.sent: General Hiwa Abdullah, a peshmerga commander in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, said that about 40 children are among those released, some of whom were too exhausted and disoriented to speak.
article_snippet.sent: I had lost hope of seeing my children again, but today it has happened,' One elderly woman said as my children embraced One elderly woman and wept.
highlights_snippet.sent: Group, made up of 40 children, women and elderly, released after a year .