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Remains of almost 600 exhumed at Iraq massacre site
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIraq has so far exhumed the remains of 597 people believed to have been executed by jihadists in the so-called Speicher massacre, the human rights minister says.
“The remains of 597 Speicher martyrs have been exhumed,” Mohammed al-Bayati tells journalists in Baghdad.
In June 2014, armed men belonging or allied to the Islamic State jihadist group captured hundreds of young, mostly Shiite recruits from Speicher military base, near the northern city of Tikrit.
They were then lined up in several locations and executed, as shown in pictures and footage later released by IS.
— AFP
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