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Iraqi forces discovered a mass grave on Sunday after retaking an area from the Daesh group near Fallujah, where the militants are using thousands of civilians as human shields.
In Saqlawiya, northwest of Fallujah, Iraqi forces found a burial site thought to contain the bodies of around 400 people, most of them soldiers executed by Daesh in 2014 and 2015.
"The security forces of the federal police, the army and the Hashed Al Shaabi found a mass grave in the Shuhada neighbourhood during a mine clearing operation," a police colonel said. He said most of the victims, whose remains were being transferred for identification, appeared to have been shot in the head.
"The mass grave also includes civilians executed by Daesh on various charges such as spying or breaking the organisation's rules," said Rajeh Barakat, a member of the provincial council of Anbar, where Fallujah is located.
Iraqi forces launched a vast operation on May 22-23 to retake Fallujah, which lies only 50 kilometres west of Baghdad and is one of the militants' most emblematic bastions.
The first phase of the operation was aimed at sealing the siege on the city by cutting the militant group's supply lines.
A week ago, elite troops launched a second phase aimed at breaking through into Fallujah itself, where US soldiers in 2004 suffered some of their worst losses since the Vietnam War
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