Iraq starts work on IS mass grave thought to hold thousands of bodies

The project’s director said victims buried at the huge site, near Mosul, include executed soldiers, members of the Yazidi minority and city residents

Iraqi authorities have begun excavating the site of a mass grave believed to contain thousands of victims of Islamic State (IS) near Mosul city, the project’s director said on Sunday.

The first phase, launched on August 10, includes surface-level excavation at the Khasfa site, Ahmed al-Assadi said.

A journalist visiting the site in northern Iraq on Sunday said the team unearthed human skulls buried in the sand.

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