Sinkhole containing 1,000 ISIS victims uncovered in Iraq’s Tal Afar
19-02-2020
Zhelwan Z. Wali
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A sinkhole reportedly containing almost 1,000 bodies, including around 30 Yezidis, killed by the Islamic State (ISIS) from mid-2014 to late 2017 has been uncovered in northern Iraq’s Tal Afar region of Nineveh, a local official confirmed on Wednesday.
“The pit contains at least 1,000 bodies. They [ISIS] had even dumped victims into the mass grave while they were still alive,†Tal Afar Mayor Qasim Mohammed told Rudaw.
The majority of the victims in the pit, thought to be 150 meters deep, are Shiites from Tal Afar, he added.
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