Iraq opens mass grave to identify Daesh victims
11 hours ago Human remains of those held prisoner by Daesh after being unearthed from a mass grave in Badush, Mosul. AFP
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Iraqi authorities said on Sunday the remains of 123 people killed by Daesh group militants had been removed from a mass grave in a bid to identify them in the northern province of Nineveh.
The Badush prison massacre was one of the worst crimes Daesh carried out after it seized control of a third of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014.
READ MORE In June that year, Daesh fighters attacked the northwestern prison, freeing Sunni Muslim inmates and forcing 583 mainly Shiite prisoners into a truck, before driving them to a ravine and shooting them.