Weather mass grave discovered in Iraq

Weather mass grave discovered in Iraq

World January 21, 2017 16:00

baghdad - In a presidential complex in the Iraqi city of Tikrit is a mass grave with certain 89 bodies have been found. It probably involves the remains of Iraqi soldiers killed by (IS) fighters of the Islamic State, according to the security services. In the city are already exposed several mass graves.

The soldiers were taken prisoner by the terrorist movement in 2014 when IS still large areas had been held in the north and west of Iraq. The Iraqi army recaptured Tikrit in March last year. Shortly thereafter, the first mass graves were discovered. Sunni IS alleges that the 1700 Iraqi soldiers have slain with a Shiite background.

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