BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities have discovered a mass grave with the bodies of 38 Indian construction workers abducted when ISIL militants overran the northern city of Mosul in 2014, officials said Tuesday. The abducted workers, most from northern India, had been employed by a construction company operating near Mosul when militants captured wide swaths of northern Iraq in the summer of 2014. Iraqi authorities used radar to verify that the mound was a mass grave, she said, and then exhumed the bodies. Indian authorities then sent DNA samples from relatives of the missing workers. Iraqi authorities said the mass grave held 39 bodies, but only 38 have been positively identified through DNA analysis.

Source: National Post March 20, 2018 13:41 UTC