Iraqi teams start exhuming mass grave of soldiers in Tikrit

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi forensic teams in the newly recaptured city of Tikrit have started exhuming bodies from mass graves believed to contain some of the hundreds of soldiers killed by Islamic State militants last year, a government spokesman said Tuesday.

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