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Iraqi Forces Discover Mass Grave With 100 Beheaded Bodies In Mosul

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A mass grave containing the remains of about 100 beheaded civilians has been discovered inside a school in a town south of Mosul, Iraq’s military said in a statement Monday.

The mass grave was found by Iraqi forces in the School of Agriculture on the outskirts of Hammam al-Alil, a town that was recaptured from ISIS on Monday, Iraq’s Joint Military Command said.
“Gangs of ISIS militants continue to commit crimes against our people,” the statement said.
Special teams are being sent to the site to investigate the killings, the statement said. Beheadings and mass graves have become a hallmark of the Sunni terror group.
Iraq’s federal police forces and army troops attacked the ISIS-held town of Hammam al-Alil — about 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) south of Mosul, and the last significant settlement on the Tigris River before Mosul — on Saturday.
A day earlier, the UN Refugee Agency said it had received reports that ISIS was instructing residents of the town to hand over boys aged 9 and older, apparently to fight on behalf of the terror group.
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Shiite/ Army Clash: 347 Corpses Were Buried In Mass Grave, Says DG Of Interfaith

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Facts about the casualty figures during the December 12, 2015, clashes between the Nigerian Army and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (also known as Shiites) in Zaria have emerged with the disclosure that 347 corpses were buried in a mass grave.

Making the disclosure at the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by the Kaduna state government to investigate the clashes, Kaduna state Director General of Interfaith, Alhaji Namadi Musa, said a total of 347 corpses were given mass burial in Mando area at the outskirts of the metropolis.

Testifying on Monday before the commission headed by Justice Muhammad Lawal Garba, Musa said he personally conducted the mass burial, adding that he counted the bodies as they were being put in the mass grave.

He explained that the corpses comprises of 191 from the Army depot in Zaria and another 156 from the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hostpital (ABUTH), Shika, Zaria.
According to him, one Major Ogundare from the Nigerian Army Depot, Zaria led three military trucks loaded with corpses from the army depot while he (Musa) had five Mercedes Benz trucks loaded which with corpses and were taken to a mass grave in Mando area at the outskirts of Kaduna Metropolis and buried in a mass grave.

He added that it was during the mass burial that he had the opportunity to meticulously count the corpses as they were being dropped in the grave.

He disclosed further that it took five and a half hours – from 12:30am on December 14 to about 5:30am to bury all the corpses in one mass grave.

Credit: Thisday