Iraq exhumes 470 bodies from mass graves

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Baghdad, May 28 (IANS) Iraqi authorities have exhumed the remains of some 470 people believed to be soldiers executed by Islamic State (IS) militants near the city of Tikrit in 2014, authorities said on Thursday. "We have exhumed the bodies of 470 martyred from four major mass graves in Tikrit," Xinhua news agency quoted Health Minister Adila Hammoud as saying at a press conference in Baghdad. The victims were believed to be among 1,700 soldiers who walked out of an airbase, k**wn as Camp Speicher, **rth of Tikrit, the capital of Salahudin province, but were abducted and then killed last June by IS militants and some Sunni tribesmen, who captured a large part of the country's **rthern and western territories, including the **rthern part of Salahudin province.

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