Layla Mohammed barely had time to gather her children's belongings before fleeing their southern Tripoli home when shelling targeted the Libyan capital's outskirts earlier this year.

Hundreds of families who fled Mosul last year left displacement camps on Wednesday to head back to their homes, in the biggest wave yet of returns to the city, officials said.

More than 100,000 people have been displaced as a result of the massive operation to recapture Iraq's second city Mosul, the International Organisation for Migration said on Sunday.

A 67-year-old lawyer died as he fell while leaning on the parapet wall of the court complex of the Madras High Court last week.