Remains in Mass Grave Near Mosul Identified
Iraqi authorities on Tuesday began to identify bodies discovered in a mass grave in a village southeast of Mosul, as the United Nations said Islamic State militants had forced 1,500 families to retreat with them from the village into the city. Iraqi authorities said the remains of some 100 decapitated bodies found Monday by Iraqi […]Margherita Stancati, Ben Kesling and Ghassan Adnan write for The Wall Street Journal:
Iraqi authorities on Tuesday began to identify bodies discovered in a mass grave in a village southeast of Mosul, as the United Nations said Islamic State militants had forced 1,500 families to retreat with them from the village into the city.
Iraqi authorities said the remains of some 100 decapitated bodies found Monday by Iraqi troops as they advanced into Islamic State-held territory were likely those of members of Iraq’s security forces and their family members. The government dispatched a forensic team to the site, near an agricultural school in the Hamam al-Ali district about 30 miles from Mosul. The U.N. said last month that the Sunni Muslim terror group had executed 50 former police officers in the facility.
