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Bodies of 12 police officers found mass grave in Garmian

PM:08:05:16/12/2021

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SULAIMANI — A mass grave was found in Garmian, south of Sulaimani province, on Thursday (December 16), an official from Kurdish forces said.

Muhammad Rostam, the deputy of Peshmerga forces in Qara Tapa – Kifri, said in a statement to NRT the mass grave found in the village of Duraji in the area of Dawda consists of 12 bodies of members of Iraqi police and emergency forces.

The statement also detailed that in 2018, the officers were taken hostage by Islamic State (ISIS) militants and brought to the area where they were forced to make video-taped confessions and then murdered.

They were then buried in the mass grave located in the hills between Tuz Khurmatu and Kifri districts.

(NRT Digital Media)