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Tuesday 8 November 2016

Battle for Mosul: Investigators examine mass grave site

Iraqi investigators have carried out an initial examination on Tuesday of a mass grave site discovered in an area south of Mosul that was recently retaken from ISIL control.


Iraqi security forces announced the discovery of the site in the Hammam al-Alil area on Monday, after retaking it as part of the operation to recapture Mosul, the last Iraqi city held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, also known as ISIS.

"Today, the team conducted an initial examination," said Mohammed Taher al-Tamimi, head of the operations room in the general secretariat of the cabinet, which he said is coordinating and supporting efforts to investigate the site.

Iraq's Joint Operations Command said on Monday that  100 headless bodies had been found  in the Hammam al-Alil area - an assertion that did not appear to be supported by available evidence on the ground.

"From what we saw today, I believe that there are around 25 bodies visible. But this does not mean that this is the total number. We believe that there are very large numbers there," Tamimi said.

Men in Iraqi police uniforms used ropes to pull two bodies, one of them headless, from the grave, and also removed a decapitated head, but they were later told to return them to their original locations.

The investigators, some of whom wore face masks because of the smell, took notes at the grave site.

On Tuesday, the United Nations said that ISIL fighters have abducted 295 former Iraqi Security Forces members near Mosul and forced 1,500 families to retreat with them from the town of Hammam al-Alil towards Mosul airport.
 [aljazeera.com]
8/11/16

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