Recovering bodies efforts concluded in Nineveh: Civil Defense
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The civil defense department in Nineveh has announced concluding the recovery of bodies in the province, an official said.
Speaking to Alghad Press on Monday, Brig. Gen, Mohamed al-Jawari, head of the department, said, “the civil defense team concluded processes of recovering bodies in Mosul, especially in the western side of the city.”
The teams, according to Jawari, “will respond to calls from citizens over presence of any bodies to remove them from under the rubble.”
“Over the past period of time, the civil defense teams managed to recover bodies from under the debris, in the wake of calls made by citizens over presence of bodies,” he added.
Regarding estimates on the accurate figures of recovered bodies, Jawari said, “no accurate information on number of the bodies, however, they exceed 2,000.”
Last week, Col. Zaid Ibrahim, of the department, told Alghad Press that 95 percent of the bodies were in the western side of Mosul as well as the Old City.
Relics of 70 bodies found in mass grave, south of Mosul
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have run into a mass grave in south of Mosul on Monday, a security source said.
“Security services found relics of 70 bodies for victims killed by Islamic State in one of the graves in al-Shura region, south of Mosul. Some of them were for children and women who were executed during offensives,” the source told Baghdad Today.
“Security troops transferred the bodies to forensic medicine department in Mosul,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added.