Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Security forces have run into a mass grave containing relics of more than fifty persons, north of Mosul, a security source said on Monday.
“Troops found the grave at the outskirts of Badush town,” the source told Baghdad Today website.
The relics were for 52 of the security personnel working in Badush prison. “The bodies were shot in the heads and chests,” the source added.
“The relics were transferred to forensic medicine department in Mosul,” the source said.
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State Sunni extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria.