Mass Grave With 50 Unknown Bodies Found In Samarra
Salah al-Din - Voices of Iraq
Monday , 30 /06 /2008
Salah al-Din, Jun 29, (VOI) – A force from the Iraqi army’s Quick Intervention unit unearthed a mass grave west of the city of Samarra containing 50 decomposed bodies, the unit commander said on Sunday.
“The grave, discovered on Saturday evening in the area of al-Tharthar, (30 km) west of Samarra, contained 50 bodies in the form of skeletons. Some of them were buried randomly,” Maj. Muthanna Shakir told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).
“The victims were clad in civilian clothes and showed signs of having been shot,” said Shakir, adding the corpses were found in area where al-Qaeda network used to control in the past.
Samarra, a city in the province of Salah al-Din, lies on the east bank of the River Tigris and is 120 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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