Mass grave with 50 bodies found in northern Iraq

Erbil, Oct. 28 (IANS): Iraqi troops accompanied by police forces, and combatants from the Shia Popular Mobilization Units on Saturday continued with their efforts to take control of one of the Islamic State’s last strongholds in the province of Anbar after having discovered a mass grave containing the remains of up to 50 people, officials said Iraqi forces have found the mass grave on Friday with the bodies of victims killed by IS militants in al-Hawija, northern Iraq, Efe reported. “A mass grave has been found with 50 bodies of members from Iraqi army and police killed by IS combatants in al-Bakara town, located in al-Hawija,” Iraq’s joint operation command said in a statement. Earlier this month, Iraqi forces launched a military campaign and liberated al-Hawija, which was considered the last stronghold for IS radicals in northern Iraq.