Article: Over 3,000 bodies exhumed from mass grave in Iraq

Over 3,000 bodies exhumed from mass grave in Iraq

BAGHDAD, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The remains of up to 3,000 people, supposedly massacred during the 1991 Shiite uprising against Saddam Hussein's regime, had been exhumed from a mass grave near Baghdad, a doctor leading the excavation said on Wednesday.

Rafid Husseini said local people had retrieved or located over 3,000 bodies in the mass grave in Mahawil, some 90 km south of the capital, over the past nine days. There were still countless ...

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