Iraq: Mass grave with 222 bodies found

Times Of India Sunday 10th July, 2011

Baghdad , the authorities said on Sunday. "We have found 222 bodies and we have transferred them to the morgue in the province of Najaf," said Karim Ziad, the official in charge of mass graves at the Department of Human Rights. Iraqi authorities announced on Wednesday they had discovered another mass grave with 900 corpses in the Shanafiyah region ...

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