Militants’ Bodies Still Rot in Old Mosul Amid Rebuilding Efforts
Crushed under rubble and burned out cars, dozens, or perhaps hundreds, of corpses of Islamic State militants still lie where they fell in the battle for Mosul’s Old City that ended last July. In the final throws of the fight, Iraqi authorities dug tirelessly, searching for the bodies of civilians. Over the course of the […]Heather Murdock writes for Voice of America:
Crushed under rubble and burned out cars, dozens, or perhaps hundreds, of corpses of Islamic State militants still lie where they fell in the battle for Mosul’s Old City that ended last July.
In the final throws of the fight, Iraqi authorities dug tirelessly, searching for the bodies of civilians. Over the course of the months-long war, thousands of the dead were recovered. About 70 people were pulled from the wreckage alive.
Authorities, however, made a point of ignoring the corpses of IS militants. They said those bodies should be thrown out with the trash.
