SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Iraqi authorities have exhumed the remains of 85 Islamic State (ISIS) militants and their relatives from a mass grave in Mosul, according to an Iraqi official.
The remains of 35 people killed between 2016 and 2017 were dug on Saturday while 50 were found on Sunday, AFP cited head of forensics in Nineveh Wathiq al-anzi as saying.
“Work is ongoing,” Azni said.
It is the first announcement of a mass grave of ISIS militants killed during the battle to regain control of Mosul between 2016 and 2017.
Islamic State seized large swathes of Iraqi territory in 2014, declaring a “caliphate” and killing thousands there before Baghdad declared victory in 2017.
The United Nations says the group left behind more than 200 mass graves that could contain as many as 12,000 bodies.
