Iraqi forces found 365 ISIS bodies in Baiji graves
Iraqi security forces discover total of 19 graves around reconquered town of Baiji.
Iraqi forces said Wednesday they found 19 different mass graves containing the bodies of 365 fighters from the ISIS group in the reconquered town of Baiji.
An army officer confirmed a large number of ISIS bodies had been discovered in mass graves, but could not say how many and mentioned that some had also been found in another neighborhood.
In a statement, the security forces said that “the total number of graves discovered by the heroes of the Popular Mobilization is 19”.
It said the mass graves were found in the Asri neighborhood of Baiji, 200 kilometers north of Baghdad, and contained a total of “365 bodies of Daesh terrorists”.
Daesh is an Arab acronym for ISIS.
It was not clear how long the bodies had been buried there nor how all of them were identified as fighters.
Baiji and its nearby refinery — once the country’s largest but now extensively destroyed — has been the scene of almost uninterrupted fighting in the past 16 months.
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