Iraqi civil defence recover a body in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on May 16, 2018. (AFP photo)MOSUL, Iraq: Atop an enormous mound of rubble under blistering sun in Iraq's second city Mosul, fire crews and police chip away at a grim but vital task. "Over three days, 763 bodies have been pulled from the rubble and buried," Lieutenant Colonel Rabie Ibrahim tells AFP. "The operations will continue until all the corpses are extracted" from the heart of the city, Ibrahim says. Since Mosul was retaken in July, "2,838 bodies, including 600 IS members, have been retrieved from the rubble," governor Naufel Sultane tells AFP.

Source: Bangkok Post May 21, 2018 04:59 UTC