Mass grave of ISIS victims discovered in Northern city of Mosul, Iraq

Iraqi security forces unearthed yet another mass grave containing the bodies of at least 20 women tortured and slain by ISIL terrorists near the Northern city of Mosul, which was once the Takfiri group’s main stronghold in the Arab country.

“Relics of 20 women were found inside a mass grave while removing debris in western Mosul,” Iraqi Police Colonel Omar al-Hajjar said on Monday, Middle East News reported.

Al-Hajjar added that the victims were executed by the terrorists “as they were trying to escape toward the Eastern side of the city during the liberation offensives last year”, underlining that the bodies of the victims along with their identity cards “were transferred to forensic medicine department in Mosul to extradite them to their relatives.”

Several mass graves have been found in the areas formerly controlled by Daesh militants since Iraqi forces launched their major offensive in October 2016 to liberate Mosul, the ISIL’s last urban stronghold in the Arab state.

The largest mass grave on the territory of Iraq, allegedly containing the bodies of more than four thousand people, was found late February not far from the city of Mosul near the Baghdad-Mosul road.

According to reports, the number of dead bodies was more than four thousand, making it the largest mass grave on the territory of Iraq so far. The bodies belonged to Iraqi security forces who have been killed by the ISIL back in the summer of 2014 when the terrorist group first captured the area.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has declared the end of military operations against the ISIL group in the Arab country.

ISIL began a terror campaign in Iraq in 2014, overrunning vast swathes in lightning attacks. Iraqi forces then launched operations to eliminate ISIL and retake lost territory.

Source: Farsnews