Bodies of about 100 Kurdish women, children found in Iraq mass grave

TAL AL-SHAIKHIA (Iraq), Dec 27 (AFP): Iraqi authorities are working to exhume the remains of around 100 Kurdish women and children thought to have been killed in the 1980s under former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein, three officials said.

The grave was discovered in Tal al-Shaikhia in the Muthanna province in southern Iraq, about 15-20 kilometres (10-12 miles) from the main road there, an AFP journalist said.

Specialised teams began exhuming the grave earlier this month after it was initially discovered in 2019, said Diaa Karim, the head of the Iraqi authority for mass graves.