Iraq Digs Up Mass Grave Containing Bodies of ISIS Militants

A worker walks past the covered remains of bodies unearthed from a mass grave in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. AFP

Iraqi authorities said Sunday that they had exhumed the remains of 85 ISIS militants and their relatives from a mass grave in the northern city of Mosul.

The remains of 35 people killed between 2016 and 2017 were dug up on Saturday while 50 were found on Sunday and "work is ongoing", said Hassan Wathiq al-Anzi, head of forensics in northern Iraq's Nineveh province.