Isis rigs mass grave with landmines to kill journalists and war crime investigators
Journalist killed in blast by sinkhole near Mosul as de-mining groups warn of 'race against time'
Lizzie Dearden
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A member of the Popular Mobilisation Forces at the khasfah sinkhole and mass grave south of Mosul on 26 February AFP/Getty Images
Isis has littered the ground around its largest known mass grave with land mines aiming to kill investigators documenting the terrorist group’s atrocities as it continues to lose territory in Iraq.
Shifa Gardi, a Kurdish journalist for Rudaw television, was conducting an interview on the edge of the sinkhole near Mosul when she was killed in an explosion on Saturday.
The network said the Popular Mobilisation Forces commander she was speaking to walked into a wire that triggered the buried device, which killed him, Ms Gardi and four other fighters, while injuring several others.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-mass-grave-rig-landmines-journalists-shifa-gardi-rudaw-war-crimes-investigators-iraq-mosul-a7606196.html
